Enter A Mechanical Paradise With The Jaquet Droz Tropical Bird Repeater

Some brands have a reputation to uphold but don’t Instead, they take great pleasure in exceeding them, like Jaquet Droz recently did with their Tropical Bird Repeater. During his lifetime Jaquet Droz made quite a few remarkable automatons These lifelike figures moved very organically yet where powered by a mechanical mechanism.

Today Jaquet Droz, the brand, takes great pleasure in doing exactly the same yet now on a wristwatch scale In the past, this let to dancing flowers and singing birds, but with the Tropical Bird Repeater, we are entering paradise. The scene on the dial of this 47mm large watch is quite serene A leopard is laying lazily in a tree, a hummingbird drinks nectar from a flower and two peacocks flank a tranquil lake.

They are meticulously crafted and/or painted, in vibrant colors with an exceptional eye for detail, on a background of white mother-of-pearl. This would make for a beautiful . Source