Rare Watches: Jaquet Droz Tropical Bird Minute Repeater – high horology meets high art

Here we come to a close encounter with one of their signature watches - the Tropical Bird Minute Repeater, part of the Singing Bird series within the Jaquet Droz Automata Collection The JD Tropical Bird Minute Repeater is a rather large watch, with a case measuring 47mm in diameter and a height 18.95mm But it is large for a reason.

The aquet Droz RMA89 hand-wound minute repeater movement is rather beautiful to look at from the sapphire case back We omitted the Competitive Landscape section because the Jaquet Droz Tropical Bird Minute Repeatr is stands in its own category The only possible competition is possibly the other bird repeater automata offered by the same company.

The watch is truly special, and will appeal to those who have the deep pockets who want a nice minute repeater, with automata, with artistic scenery depicted on the dial The traditional minute repeater aspects are nicely addressed. . Source