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...In the mid-1700s, the eponymous watchmaker Pierre Jaquet-Droz was condemned to death by the Inquisition for practising black magic after showing his humanlike automata to the Spanish court....
...Local brands such as Humbert Droz, Berthet, Mat watches and Fob make an appearance inside the manufacture. Other local brands include Lornet Watches....
...Over the past dozen years or so she has worked for brands as different as Jaquet Droz and Chanel. For Hermès she has translated the designs of silk scarves into watch dials....
...Jaquet Droz’s latest automaton casts the fluttering wings of a butterfly pulling Cupid on a chariot against a dial of wood petrified 150 million years ago....
...Marc Hayek, CEO of Blancpain, Breguet and Jaquet Droz, explains the appeal: “Platinum is among the noblest and most precious of metals....
...Last month, Jaquet Droz opened a point of sale in Shenzhen, bringing its total outlets in China to 16....
...Meanwhile, niche brand Jaquet Droz is experimenting with the use of petrified wood, which it will launch next year in a new example of its Loving Butterfly Automaton....
...An excerpt from the book’s introduction: The programmable pen of Jaquet-Droz’s writer — or Merlin’s dancer and her “irresistible eyes — would be as telling a clue about that future as anything happening...
...Owned by the Swatch Group since 2000, the modern-day Jaquet Droz brand still plays on the Far East connection, typically with new models such as the “Relief Monkey” (2016 is the year of the monkey in the...
...Highlights include a 1785 automaton singing bird clock by Jaquet-Droz and Leschot of Geneva, estimated to fetch between SFr200,000 and SFr400,000 ($209,000-$418,000)....
...Jacquet Droz, the niche brand at Swatch Group, is more esoteric....
...opened his own atelier and was entrusted by the Musée d’art et d’Histoire de Neuchâtel with restoring “La Musicienne”, an 18th century lifelike automaton of a female organ player, made by Pierre Jacquet-Droz...
...“We need to be patient”, says Wolfgang Humbert-Droz, head of Julius Baer’s small business in Tokyo, which has a handful of staff managing assets of about $220m. “Japan is not an easy market to crack.”...
...That was followed by a Jacquet Droz inspired Birdcage Clock. The extraordinary item changed hands for HK$1.4m, reflecting the success of a similar “singing bird” sold recently by Christie’s....
...But he must still prove his mettle, maintaining his grandfather’s progress at Breguet and repositioning Jacquet Droz, a smaller brand for which he is also responsible....
...The company was created by Arnold Charpie and bought in 1886 by a Swiss group, Droz & Amstutz, specifically to import pocket watches to Bombay....
...Normally known for its tight management team – underlined by the prominence of the controlling Hayek family – last August brought the surprise departure of Manuel Emch as head of Jaquet Droz, Swatch Group...
...specialists Charles Frodsham, a double dial revolutionary watch with 100 minutes in an hour, and gold musical snuff box clocks adorned with enamel pictures, pearls, diamonds and moving automata by Jaquet Droz...
...his innovative work with designer Issey Miyake and his Paper Church in Hyogo, Japan, transformed the building to include seven Swatch Group brand boutiques: Breguet, Blancpain, Glashütte Original, Jaquet Droz...
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