perpetual calendar

noun

: a table for finding the day of the week for any one of a wide range of dates

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The complications include a tourbillon, perpetual calendar, minute repeater, and a complex celestial and astronomical system that indicates three lunar month displays that include the synodic, draconic, and anomalistic cycles. Sophie Furley, Robb Report, 5 Nov. 2024 Photo : Atom Moore Bovet 1822 Recital 28 Prowess 1 (Mechanical Exception) This watch has everything: hours, minutes, seconds, day, date, month, year, power reserve indicator, world time, tourbillon, perpetual calendar and daylight savings time indicator. Carol Besler, Robb Report, 23 Oct. 2024 This gorgeous open-faced, keyless, 18-karat-yellow-gold pocket watch was made around 1900 and is loaded with not only a perpetual calendar and moon phases but also a minute-repeater function that chimes on command. Oren Hartov, Robb Report, 20 Oct. 2024 The first perpetual calendar wristwatch to feature a leap-year indicator, the piece was one of just nine made by Audemars Piguet in the 1950s. Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 7 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for perpetual calendar 

Word History

First Known Use

1577, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of perpetual calendar was in 1577

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“Perpetual calendar.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/perpetual%20calendar. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.

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