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First Look: Jaquet Droz Butterfly Automaton (Video)

Press Release: Jaquet Droz Petite Heuer Minute Rooster

Press Release: Jaquet Droz Petite Heuer Minute Fire Rooster. Four new models released, all with Atelier d'Arts detailing.

Living Machines - The Futurist Tradition Of Jaquet Droz

There are plenty of things that set humans apart from even our most intelligent planetary cohabitants. Here’s one that fascinates me in particular - we replicate in effigy as well as in response to our biological mandate.

Baselworld 2016: Jaquet Droz Grande Seconde Dual Time with hands on and pricing

Hands on with the Jaquet Droz Grande Seconde Dual Time direct from the Baselworld 2016 booth. Impressions review with live pics and prices.

Review: Jaquet Droz the Bird Repeater

Jaquet Droz is well known for its enamel dials and automaton watches. While the brand has returned to the watch scene only recently, it has in fact a longstanding history. In 1784, Pierre Jaquet-Droz opened the first clockmaking manufacture in Geneva,

Pre-Basel 2015: Jaquet Droz Grande Seconde Deadbeat

Deadbeat seconds are popular this year, and the Jaquet Droz Grande Seconde Deadbeat is an especially compelling example. Behind that beautiful dial, there’ s a new, patented caliber. The new Grande Seconde Deadbeat incorporates several subtle design elements. The Grande Seconde timepieces already featured, well, Grande Secondes. To place even greater emphasis on the seconds […]

Pre Baselworld 2015: Jaquet Droz Grande Seconde Deadbeat

Jaquet Droz Grande Seconde

The Lucky Eight: Jaquet Droz Lady 8

Numbers have played significant roles throughout cultures in both scientific and spiritual realms, their importance deriving from ancient societies which believed that each numerological figure possessed a distinctive meaning. For the Chinese, the number eight symbolizes wealth, prosperity and the totality of the universe. For mathematicians, an “8” lying down stands for infinity, while the […]

A Flight Of Fancy: The Jaquet Droz American Eagle

The watches produced by Jaquet Droz since the name was relaunched by the Swatch Group in 2001 have for the last 11 years been notable mostly for extremely beautiful high-art dials (using everything from extremely exotic enameling techniques, such as pailloneé, to rare minerals like meteorite) and for very distinctive implementations of classic complications. (We […]