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Jaquet Droz - Other Novelties Hands-on Review
Here are more hands-on novelties review taken a few days later at the boutique.
Astrale Grande Heure GMT, on a very rare stone dial (Gold Pietersit) - piece unique..... And watch dials are MOP.....
Love the blued hands....
Grande Heure Minute Quantieme 39mm and 43mm
Now, this is very un-Jaquet Droz. But looks very fresh and love the pattern on the dial and the date window. Red tip of the second hand is a good accent, too.
White dial and blue hands are hard-to-resist combo for me....
SW Chrono
45mm
Thick!
Nice looking back side.
Blue dial looks nice.
The Eclipse Aventurine - 39mm
White dial and blue hands are hard-to-resist combo for me....
SW Chrono
45mm
Thick!
Nice looking back side.
Blue dial looks nice.
The Eclipse Aventurine - 39mm
Good for ladies, but may be a bit too big for ladies?
176 diamonds.
The Eclipse Silver - 43mm
Grande Seconde Deadbeat - this is surprising, from Jaquet Droz.
Enamel dial - they are very good at it.
On the right from the balance wheel (behind the bridge, but have a few windows) is the control gear for the "deadbeat" or dead second or jumping second.
Let's see it in the video:
176 diamonds.
The Eclipse Silver - 43mm
Grande Seconde Deadbeat - this is surprising, from Jaquet Droz.
Enamel dial - they are very good at it.
On the right from the balance wheel (behind the bridge, but have a few windows) is the control gear for the "deadbeat" or dead second or jumping second.
Let's see it in the video:
And from the back:
Now see how the date hand comes back to 1. To my eyes, it seems to have gone the short way (that's impossible because it would have to pass the second hand dial center).
Sunstone Grande Seconde. MOP dials.
Sunstone Lady 8
Petite Heure Minute Butterfly Journey. LE of 8. And believe or not, there are 8 patterns, depending on the position of the butterfly. So, in total, 64 pieces will be made.
I like their enamel painting and the 3D object on the dial....
Very, very well made.....
On the back, rotor, butterfly is engraved.
Petite Heure Minute Relief Carps…oh, my....
The roter also has enamel carp!
See this 3D engraved Lotus flower? Simply amazing.....
The Lotus, Carps swiming in the pond..... Very Japanese.... Enamel dial is very, very nice.....
New pattern Paillonnee. Grande Seconde 43mm
Soon, they MAY start taking orders for the Paillonnee pattern - you could order the dog-shape Paillonnee, for example
Thank you for reading. Kudos to Jaquet Droz, and thank you, Jaquet Droz Japan and Swatch Group (Japan).
Ken
This message has been edited by KIH on 2015-06-07 23:04:19
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Jaquet Droz 2015 Novelties Showcase.
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Jaquet Droz Charming Bird, Automata Lady 8 up close and in action
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Jaquet Droz - Other Novelties Hands-on Review
Here are more hands-on novelties review taken a few days later at the boutique. Astrale Grande Heure GMT, on a very rare stone dial (Gold Pietersit) - piece unique..... And watch dials are MOP..... Love the blued hands.... Grande Heure Minute Quantieme 39...
JD was one of the first brands to catch....
my attention many years ago. The Grande Seconde still gets me every time - just a classic design. Darren
I've always been a fan of JD...
and their automatons are fascinating! thanks for sharing these pics...
Jaquet Droz always amazes me with the impressive dials and new automata stuff...
... Charming Bird, Automata Lady 8, Carp or Butterfly on the very picturesque enamel painting, Champleve, and Paillonnee..... I experience many "wow" in these two days.... Many thanks, everyone! Ken
Amazing dials from JD!
Excellent report Ken! Thanks for bringing these beauties to us. Sunstone, grand feu enamel and Lapis Lazuli, etc dials. I don\'t know another brand which does as many variants of these amazing dials as JD! Cheers Robin
That looks like a fun evening out
Thank you very much KIH for all the insights and bringing the JD specialities much closer to people like me. Besides all the typical JD haute horlogerie work, I was really surprised to learn about about the SW Chrono with the Geneva stripe dial in blue. T...