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jaquet droz - HOMMAGE LA CHAUX-DE-FONDS 1738: The latest offering from Jaquet Droz features a dial cut from a fragment of a rare blue and yellow.

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A rare blue and yellow speckled Namibian stone for Jaquet Droz

4 January 2011

HOMMAGE LA CHAUX-DE-FONDS 1738: The latest offering from Jaquet Droz features a dial cut from a fragment of a rare blue and yellow speckled Namibian stone, and is set with mother-of-pearl markers. Its large platinum case, 43 mm in diameter, provides a splendid frame. This aesthetic splendour is matched by technical expertise: a perpetual calendar with retrograde day and date indicated by serpentine hands, reminiscent of pocket watches of the past. The counters display the subsidiary seconds a...[full article]