The Jaquet Droz Bird Repeater Openwork: 5 Things to Know
The Jaquet Droz Bird Repeater Openwork combines expertise in several arts to create an amazingly detailed and realistic automaton with minute repeater. This new model also features a clear sapphire dial that reveals the complex mechanism behind the moving parts. Here are five things you need to know about this new timepiece.The namesake of the Jaquet Droz watch brand, Pierre Jaquet-Droz, was an 18th century Swiss watchmaker who was known for creating outstanding examples of what some today might call very early robots. Known as automata, these figures took various forms, including human and animal, and they came in various sizes, from tiny miniatures to life-size. Exceptionally complex machinery caused the figures to perform a variety of tasks, including playing musical instruments, writing, and drawing. Jaquet-Droz was a master of this art, and he often included animatronic birds in famous table clocks, pocketwatches, and music boxes. The Bird Repeater Openwork is a remarkable tribute

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Here is a random photo of someone who used to be a big TV celebrity. Which watch is he wearing?Source: .etonline/news/218870_...ew_girlfriend/

What would you do with a WG Pepsi if it were discontinued?
Putting a different spin on the blro discontinuation threads here.Let's say you own a WG Pepsi and Rolex does discontinue it come Basel 2018. What would you do with your BLRO? Would you automatically stash it in the safe waiting for the value to increase? Continue wearing it as usual?Wear it less frequently?My concern is that there is going to be one part that is going to be a problem to replace if it discontinued- the bicolor (blue/red, purple/cranberry) ceramic bezel, just like the original GMT with the bakelite bezel. Here's an interesting quote from Rolex in the WatchTime review of the WG Pepsi: Here is some text from the official Rolex press release that we hope will help you to fully understand how difficult the process of creating a two-tone Cerachrom bezel is:The name Cerachrom derives from a contraction of the word ceramic juxtaposed with the suffix chrom from the ancient Greek word for colour . The range of available shades for ceramic is however restricted by its

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Any idea when the Rolex AD is gonna have fairly balanced supply/demand? Maybe after Baselworld 2018? The secondhand market is booming right nowSent from my iPhone using Tapatalk