Jaquet Droz Has Introduced the Petite Heure Minute Thousand Year Lights Watch

Stunning beauty is the perfect way to describe the latest luxury watch from Jaquet Droz. Titled the Petite Heure Minute Thousand Year Lights, this gorgeous women’s watch is sure to turn heads.

It’s a decorative creation that beautifully celebrates the sheer beauty of flowers. This fine watch would make a wonderful gift for that special woman in your life. You would proudly wear this new Jaquet Droz watch in any social occasion. From a romantic dinner to a formal engagement, it’s the perfect fashion statement.

One thing that stands out is the off-center subdial of the Petite Heure Minute watch. It’s located at 12 o’clock position. The reasoning from the watch designers, is the placement would allow a lot of space available on the watch dial. This facilitates the Jaquet Droz artists to literally have a blank canvas to create an artistic masterpiece.

Based on an ancient method that was popular from the 10th to 14th centuries, “Najeon Chilgi” was utilized. A flower landscape was created in white mother-of-pearl. The design is lacquered, followed by a polishing process. The final touches were completed using artistic hand-painting. The end result is a stunning array of flowers made from shimmering colors.

The watch dial is made from 18-carat red gold. The subdial is onyx. The case is 35 mm in diameter and made from 18-carat red gold case.

The feminine, Petite Heure Minute Thousand Year Lights watch comes in five different versions. Each version is a limited edition of only 28 pieces. The watch case comes in either white or red gold. You can also choose between one set in diamonds or none.

The watch has power reserve of 68 hours and s self-winding mechanical movement. It also has a water resistance of 3 bar or 30 meters.

The Petite Heure Minute Thousand Year Lights watch is available in either a deep blue or black alligator strap. The strap buckle is made from 18-carat red gold ardillon. The elegant look definitely adds to the beauty of the luxury watch itself. As you know, a little bling can go a long way in the world of fashion.

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Introducing the Stunning Jaquet Droz Paillonee Collection

The Jaquet Droz Paillonee Collection is the latest from the luxury watch brand. The watch collection includes extraordinary timepieces that pay tribute to paillonné enameling art.

Jaquet Droz watches are widely known for their high quality and creative dial design. They are also respected for their mechanical excellence. Their watch dials are professionally painted, engraved and finally enameled in the Ateliers d’Art in La Chaux-de-Fonds.

The beautiful art of paillonné enameling is done by carfully placing many tiny paillons of gold to produce gorgeous geometrical patterns. These patterns are placed on colored enamel. When completed, the design is covered by a coat of translucent enamel fondant. To complete the process, the enamel finish must be perfect. To offer only the best color and grain, extensive experience is required to master the extremely high firing temperatures.

The result is simply a stunning luxury watch. Like other watch collections, the Jaquet Droz Paillonee Collection takes a bit of the ast and blends them with the best of the present.

Founder Pierre Jaquet-Droz was one of the paillonné enameling technique specialists. The art itself peaked in use in the 18th century. The skilled workers at Jaquet Droz continue to test and improve the process.

The Jaquet Droz Paillonee Collection presents these impressive timepieces in limited editions. They would make a perfect gift for a special birthday or anniversary.

The Grande Seconde sports watch features distinctive shades of violet and anthracite gray, in addition to a blue color that shows intense luminosity. Petite Heure Minute 39 mm watch also includes the previously mentioned three colors. The impressive pocket watch features both red or blue.

The Tourbillon watch comes with a seven-day power reserve. This is the first time this category is available in a paillonné version.

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Luxury Grande Seconde Off-Centered Onyx Watch by Jaquet-Droz

With the Baselworld 2016 show only a month away, Jaquet-Droz just announced the introduction of their new Grande Seconde Off-Centered Onyx luxury watch.

This watch has a bold, sleek look. We love the intense, black watch dial. Its simplicity draws your eyes in to also admire its sophistication and modern elegance.

You would have to go back more than a hundred years to discover the initial, creative concept. It started back in the 18th century during the peak of the Enlightenment period. Pierre Jaquet-Droz was the founder luxury watch brand Jaquet-Droz. He developed the Grande Seconde watch and it definitely revolutionized thew world of watchmaking.

His unique design superimposed two dials. The first was off-centered at the 6 o’clock position. Marking the seconds was an extra-fine hand. When the two watch dials were combined, it formed the iconic figure 8 symbol. This symbol became the lucky number for Jaquet-Droz.

The new Grande Seconde Off-Centered Onyx watch now features the second watch dial at the 7 o’clock position. The shift is subtle but creates a stunning, visual appearance.
This new watch also has a first for the company. Jaquet-Droz is introducing a 43-mm stainless steel case for the very first time.

The onyx disc of the Grande Seconde Off-Centered Onyx has been carefully cut and polished to create the gorgeous watch dial. The craftsmen Jaquet Droz have meticulously cut the indexes right into the 18-carat white gold circles that make up the large hours and minutes dial, as well as the smaller seconds dial. The end result is the stylish figure 8.

You will notice the winding stem is at the 4 o’clock position. Being offset creates an appealing and dynamic look to this luxurious watch. It helps to exude VIP style and a look of class. For those who desire a luxury lifestyle, this fine watch would make the perfect addition to your collection.

What we really like is the way the light reflects off the mirror like, onyx watch face. So depending on the time of day, the watch takes on a different look that is impressive each time.

Jaquet-Droz also offers a silvered opaline dial along with an alligator leather strap in black.

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Stunning Petite Heure Minute Monkey Watch by Jaquet Droz

As a tribute to the upcoming Year of the Monkey in the Chinese New Year calendar, luxury watch brand Jaquet Droz is introducing the stunning Fire Monkey watch collection – Petite Heure Minute Monkey.

Consisting of four watch models, these luxurious watches from Jaquet Droz depicts the importance of monkeys in Chinese culture, as well as astrology. The monkey symbolizes both long life and intelligence.

Part of the new Petite Heure Minute Monkey watch collection, there are two new models. Each of the models will be available in two different versions and based on the company’s Petite Heure Minute.

Known as the Monkey King, Sun Wukong is featured in Chinese classical literature. His character is still one of the most popular in Chinese culture’s folklore. Sun Wukong represents the balance between the timeless and contemporary plus the past and present. He made the ideal inspiration for Jaquet Droz.

The Petite Heure Minute Monkey shows the animal leaping up on branch and trying to grab a peach. The watch is decorated with beautiful lacquer and mother-of-pearl. The monkey is sculpted in gold, sitting on the peach tree with delicate foliage in the background.

As mentioned above, Petite Heure Minute Monkey comes in two versions. The first is enclosed in a red gold case. The other one comes in a jewel-like white gold case that sparkles with beautiful, inset diamonds.

Similar to the two different versions of Petite Heure Minute Monkey, the two models of Petite Heure Minute Relief Monkey feature a long lasting, 68-hour power reserve. They are available in a limited edition of just 28 pieces.

For those fine watch connoisseurs, consider the new Jaquet Droz collection that celebrates the Year of the Monkey – Petite Heure Minute Monkey. It could be a perfect gift for yourself or that someone special person in your life.

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Lady 8 Flower Luxury Watch from Jaquet Droz

The stunning Lady 8 Flower ladies watch from Jaquet Droz is fine piece of luxury jewelry. Honoring the number 8, which is the lucky number of Jaquet Droz, it represents a symbol of perfection, completeness and infinity.

The luxury watch is a thing of beauty and an expression of high craftsmanship. The Lady 8 Flower watch is richly ornated by numerous turns. It features an 18-carat white gold dial and set with diamonds. The 18-carat white gold applied butterfly applique is gorgeous and the watch is completed with incredible blue sapphires. The watch’s 18-carat white gold case is set with sparkling diamonds.

Although it will make heads turn, the ladies watch from Jaquet Droz has a minimalist design with a touch of femininity and pure elegance.

Designed and created in the Jaquet Droz workshops at La Chaux-de-Fonds, the finished product is an extraordinary timepiece for women of all ages. The Lady 8 Flower watch features a breathtaking mechanical animation that takes the shape of a blossoming, lotus flower. The flower consists of 18-carat white gold petals that have been both carefully engraved and enameled by hand.

For lovers of fine gemstones, this attractive watch does not disappoint. It includes a total of 151 baguette-cut diamonds, 383 brilliant-cut diamonds, in addition to 54 blue sapphires. Simply beautiful.

The luxury Jaquet Droz watch has a power reserve of about 38 hours. The total weight is 6.31 carats and case measures 25 mm in diameter.

You have a choice of two different, limited edition versions. The first is the red gold model and only includes 28 available pieces. There are only 8 pieces of the white gold model.

Lady 8 Flower Red Gold – J032003200
The lower circle of the watch dial features a delicate butterfly with it’s delicate wings outspread. There are 2 watch versions. One watch comes with the wings of a butterfly painted and engraved in clear red enamel on a guilloché background. The second version integrates stunning jewels and features a pretty butterfly that is set with amazing blue sapphires. The butterfly is shown against snow made from shimmering diamonds.

Lady 8 Flower White Gold – J032004220
This version of the watch includes an animation featuring a mysterious bud or a fully opened jewel-like bloom. When an owner presses a push-button, the beautiful lotus flower opens up. One opened, a diamond heart appears like magic. This watch offers a technological advance of two mechanisms. First the watch mechanism and one for the automaton. They both fit within the watch’s 35 mm diameter case. The challenge was to ensure they do not interfere with each other.

This incredible luxury watch would make an ideal Christmas gift for that special woman in your life. You will be the talk of a dinner party or other social function wearing this beautiful fine timepiece. It’s elegance is unmatched and screams ultimate sophistication..

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Grande Seconde Deadbeat Watch by Jaquet-Droz

Based on a pocket watch that luxury watch brand founder Pierre Jaquet-Droz completed way back in 1784, the Grande Seconde watch series from Jaquet-Droz features the classic look of two intersecting dials. The larger subdial is located below the seconds subdial.

Now Jaquet-Droz has introduced a new version of the classic Grande Seconde watch. This one is named the Grande Seconde Deadbeat watch and features a large subdial that’s underneath a retrograde date indicator. You’ll also notice a large second hand, taking up the entire dial for an impressive look.

What makes the second hand movement rather unique is it doesn’t follow the current sweep pattern of today’s mechanical watches. The Grande Seconde Deadbeat hand moves in one-second increments.

The new Grande Seconde Deadbeat watch by Jaquet-Droz is the epitome of fine watchmaking. It’s a very complicated luxury watch and is perfect for any watch connoisseur. Show off that VIP style by wearing this stunning new timepiece.

Prior to the invention of the chronograph, the goal of watchmakers was to improving the accuracy of watches. By moving a large second hand only once per second, it became a new standard for maximum precision. That precision was important, especially in the navigation industry.

The Grande Seconde Deadbeat displays the seconds hand in the center of watch dial. This differs from the historic version, where you would find the seconds hand off-centered.

The Jaquet-Droz luxury watch comes in a 43 mm red gold case. It is 13.79 mm thick and features an ivory grande feu enamelled dial.

In 2014, when Jaquet Droz created the Grande Seconde Quantième Ivory Enamel watch, their talented designers utilized a balance-spring that was made from silicon. Due to silicon not being affected by magnetic fields or changes in pressure and temperature, it produces incredibly accurate timekeeping. A new caliber was designed to combine the Deadbeat Seconds, Calendar and Hour and Minute functions. The new Jaquet Droz 2695SMR calibre is automatic, with a single barrel, providing a 40-hour power reserve. The watch company has already filed for a patent on the new caliper design.

The new watch is Reference J008033200. Production will be in a limited edition of only 88 pieces. As you may recall from our previous articles about Jaquet-Droz watches, 8 is their lucky number.

If you love high precision watches, then consider purchasing the new Grande Seconde Deadbeat watch and dress to impress.

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Grande Heure Minute Quantième Watch from Jaquet Droz

Luxury watch brand Jaquet Droz has announced a beautiful new watch – Grande Heure Minute Quantième. It’s a tribute to the wonderful magic of imagination, creation and innovation.

The stunning watch features three central hands that are blued steel or rhodium-plated Lancine-shaped. The seconds hand is red tipped and there are rhodium-treated indexes. The Grande Heure Minute Quantième watch is housed in a stainless steel case that’s actually thinner than the Jaquet Droz – Grande Seconde Quantième watch.

The new watch includes a silicon spiral movement, sunray crown and box crystal. The new design of the date aperture located at the six o’clock position, includes sharp angles and beveled edges that are seamlessly embedded in the watch dial. The date color will change to red on the 31st of those 7 months of the year.

The JD1150P silicon spiral movement of the Grande Heure Minute Quantième watch, was first introduced by Jaquet Droz in 2014. The watch movement has a polished aesthetic and its openworked rotor can be viewed via the exhibition case-back.

The Grande Heure Minute Quantième is quite stylish and should be very popular with luxury watch connoisseurs. The fine, contemporary watch is now available in either 39 mm and 43 mm options. Choose between a silvered opaline or blue Côtes de Genève watch dial.

A black alligator leather strap is included in the silver watch version and a navy blue strap comes with the blue Côtes de Genève striped watch model.

For additional information about the new Grande Heure Minute Quantième watch from Jaquet Droz, please click www.jaquet-droz.com/

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Petite Heure Minute Relief Carps Watch from Jaquet Droz

During Baselworld 2015, luxury watch brand Jaquet Droz introduced the stunning Petite Heure Minute Relief Carps watch. This beautiful fine watch pays homage to the koi carp, which is a symbol of both love and long life.

The watch case is made from 18-carat white gold and set with 272 gorgeous diamonds (totaling 1.05 carats). The case is 13.77 mm in height and 41 mm in width. The luxury watch comes a limited serial number that’s been engraved on the case-back. This Limited Edition timepiece consists of only 28 pieces of each model.

Jaquet Droz took one of its popular pieces, known for its off-centered hours-and-minutes dial, and utilized Asian iconography to create a magnificent looking watch. The watch dial is positioned over a peaceful, blue pond. The effect was accomplished by layering translucent blue enamel. In Asia, carp are often seen in ornamental ponds.

The watch dial of the Petite Heure Minute Relief Carps watch displays two lily pads floating on the water’s surface. The display also includes blooming lotus and hand-engraved gold reed stems that rise out of the pond’s water. Offered for the first time, Jaquet Droz features an enameled balance weight that’s been beautifully decorated with a carp hand-engraved in bas-relief.

The Petite Heure Minute Relief Carps watch is available in two different styles. First is the white gold case model with a bezel and horns that have been set with stunning cut diamonds and the white mother-of-pearl hours-and-minutes sub-dial that is encircled in white gold. Second is the red gold case model that comes with a black onyx hours-and-minutes sub-dial and red gold outlining ring.

Both watch options from Jaquet Droz come with either a rolled-edge hand-made gray or stylish, black alligator leather strap.

Each Petite Heure Minute Relief Carps watch include the highly accurate Jaquet Droz 2653, self-winding mechanical movement that features a double barrel. The watch has 68 hours of power reserve. In addition, this amazing Jaquet Droz Petite Heure Minute Relief Carps watch is water resistant to 30 meters.

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The Charming Bird Luxury Watch by Jaquet Droz

First introduced in 2013, the stunning Charming Bird became the very first singing bird automata wristwatch that was ever manufactured by Swiss watchmaker Jaquet Droz. Only 28 pieces of the original Charming Bird watch were ever produced.

The first Charming Bird watch was made in white gold. Jaquet Droz was now made this beautiful luxury watch available in beautiful pink gold. This fine watch honors Pierre Jaquet-Droz, who is respected for his art of manufacturing the singing automata.

The songbird definitely celebrates the Jaquet Droz brand by improving upon the techniques of the automaton and the miniature.

The Charming Bird watch is clearly a ground-breaking timepiece. The watch conveys a modern, yet a more simplistic aesthetic. The miniature singing bird located near the bottom of the watch dial, is enclosed in a 47 mm-diameter case that offers contemporary look. The Charming Bird features a dome-shaped sapphire crystal that was designed to cleverly enhance how light rays passes through it.

The technology utilized in the Charming Bird by Jaquet Droz includes a technologically advanced miniaturization process. Tiny pistons pump the air, then store it to produce the soothing bird sound. The actual bird chirping sound heard is dependent on several variables including both the speed of the piston as well as actual shape of the bellows opening.

Charming Bird Luxury Watch by Jaquet Droz

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A Star is Born – Sunstone Watch Collection by Jaquet Droz

Jaquet Droz has introduced its new Sunstone luxury watch collection. The stunning watch features flecks of gold scintillate that produces an ember-like glow. The result mimics the luminous power of the nighttime star.

The process was first discovered way back in the 17th century, in Murano – near Venice, Italy. By mistake, an artisan glass-maker allowed some tiny shards of metal to fall into the vitreous paste. Aventurine glass was born.

The new Sunstone luxury watch collection from Jaquet Droz graces the fashion industry with three different watch models – Petite Heure Minute 35 mm, Grande Seconde Cerclée and Lady 8.

Grande Seconde Cerclée by adorning the 8 which is formed by the two interlocking dials, plus the Petite Heure Minute 35 mm, which delivers the watch model with a touch of novel originality. The watch has red gold in color with sunstone dial.

The Lady 8 watch dial is adorned in an array of beautiful golden specks, which produces a gorgeous and sophisticated look. This fine women’s watch has a dome-shaped dial in a red gold, and comes in a diamond-set 35 mm case. The watch case houses the Jaquet Droz 1153 automatic movement.

Jaquet Droz - Petite Heure Minute Sunstone watch
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As we move into the new year, it’s obvious Jaquet Droz is focusing it’s new line of ladies watches on blend of individuality and beauty. The motes of gold dust add a rich look that dazzles and will sure to impress in any type of social gathering.

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Jaquet Droz Introduces the Bird Repeater Openwork Watch

In 2012, the original Bird Repeater luxury watch by Jaquet Droz made its first appearance.

The following year, watch making artistry continued with the introduction of The Charming Bird watch that recognized the luxury brand’s 275th anniversary milestone. This model not only showcased the bird in an ultra-modern decorative setting, but it also sang.

This year, Jaquet Droz has done it again with the stunning Bird Repeater Openwork. The new watch model is more streamlined with a contemporary look. The animated features that made its predecessors popular are still visible.

The Bird Repeater Openwork features two beautiful blue tit birds and their two babies. The color of the birds is stunning along with a flowing waterfall on the left and a hatching egg, centered between the baby birds.

The new luxury watch from Jaquet Droz features a sapphire crystal dial that displays an exposed automated movement. The result is it shows off the vibrant colors of the birds. The bold watch dial also features a black onyx subdial.

The Bird Repeater Openwork movement is the Swiss hand-wind Jaquet Droz in-house caliber RMA88 and comes with 69 jewels, 18,000 vph, in addition to a power reserve of 48 hours.

The watch case is 47 mm in size and constructed from beautiful 18k white gold. The lxuury watch also includes double sapphire crystals. It is not water resistant.

The new Bird Repeater watch is available in white gold on a black alligator leather strap.

The Bird Repeater Openwork watch by Jaquet Droz is a limited edition collection of only eight pieces. Each one of the watches is equipped with 508 components.

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