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Jaquet Droz The Charming Bird: The Art of Astonishment

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The songbird is the blue tit and it is housed in a protruding dome-shaped sapphire crystal at the 6 o’clock position. The bird can chirp (sing) three different notes of the melody and these are amplified by Jaquet Droz’s system. Photo: © TANG Portfolio. Elfa / Timmy BaselWorld 2015.

The Charming Bird watch by Jaquet Droz is an astonishingly charming mechanical audio-visual work of art that also tells the time. If there is one word we’d use to describe The Charming Bird wristwatch, having seen and experienced it at the 2015 BaselWorld watch fair, it will be: “amazing”. Below its off-centred dial for the hours and minutes display is … More →