Celebrating the beauty of flowers, the Jaquet Droz Petite Heure Minute Thousand Year Lights is a decorative masterpiece.
The watch utilizes skills that the watchmaker has mastered through the years, like enameling, miniature painting andrealistic sculpting and engraving. To create the flowers on the bottom of the dial, craftsmen used the "Najeon Chilgi" method, which involves mother-of-pearl encrusted lacquer. The mother-of-pearl is first lacquered, then polished with great care. The craftsmen engravers then bring out the minute volumes through hand painting, imbuing these floral tableaux with incomparable shine and the mirror effect of light glistening upon them.
The watch is available in five versions, each a 28-piece limited edition. The retail price is $49,400.
About Jaquet Droz
Pierre Jaquet-Droz was born in 1721 on a small farm (La Ferme de Sur le Pont) in La Chaux-de-Fonds. He began to take a serious interest in clockmaking and precision mechanics under the tutelage of older relatives from the Brandt-di-Grieurin, Sandoz and Robert families. It proved to be a true revelation for him.