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All or Nothing Piece

That part of a repeating watch that keeps the quarter rack off the snail until the slide in the band of the case is pushed around. The lifting piece of the hour hammer is kept free from the twelve-toothed ratchet, while the quarter rack is locked, so that the hours cannot be struck until the quarter rack has fallen. It is sometimes called the hooking spring. It was invented by Julien Le Roy.