Pierre Jaquet-Droz
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Pierre Jaquet-Droz was a watchmaker of the late eighteenth century. He was born on 28 July 1721 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, in the Principality of Neuchâtel. He lived in Paris, London, and Geneva, where he
Pierre Jaquet-Droz
The Jaquet-Droz automata
The Swatch Group
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The Swatch Group Ltd is a Swiss manufacturer of watches and jewellery. The company was founded in 1983 through the merger of ASUAG and SSIH, moving to manufacturing quartz-crystal watches to resolve t
Pierre Jaquet-Droz
…built animated dolls known as automata to help his firm sell watches and mechanical caged songbirds. The Jaquet Droz luxury watch brand is now owned by The Swatch Group. Constructed between 1768 and 1774 by Pierre Jaquet-Droz, his son Henri-Louis (1752–1791), and Jean-Frédéric Leschot (1746–1824), the automata include…
Blancpain complication wristwatch
Breguet No. 1705 tourbillon wristwatch
Panomatic Lunar watch by Glashütte Original