Macaw-tomaton: Jaquet Droz Parrot Repeater Pocket Watch Celebrates 280 Years

Jaquet Droz, which in 2018 marks 280 years since its founder and namesake began making watches under his own name, has a deep-rooted history in automata, repeating and chiming mechanisms, musical birds, and elaborately decorated pocketwatches The modern company, now part of the Swatch Group, pays tribute to all these hallmarks with a unique piece it introduced at Baselworld 2018, the Jaquet Droz Parrot Repeater Pocket Watch. The Jaquet Droz Parrot Repeater Pocket Watch is a one-of-a-kind piece paying tribute to the founders history of bird automata. Pierre Jaquet-Droz (1721 – 1790), throughout his prolific career, made scores of clocks, watches, and music boxes that featured singing bird automata — moving mechanical devices in the shape of human beings or animals — often in collaboration with his son Henri-Louis, and his eponymous brand has paid tribute to this history in recent years with its extremely complex and highly limited Bird Repeater wristwatches. . Source