Customizable Jaquet Droz Les Douze Villes 12 Timezone Collection Watches + Video
This new watch collection from Jaquet Droz simply epitomizes simplistic operation. They are careful not to call it a world time because it only houses 12 time zones, though the buyer can specify what...
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Jaquet Droz Eclipse Watch
This is a more "simple" Jaquet Droz watch with an annual calendar and a quirky moon phase indicator. Called the "Eclipse," it comes in a 18k gold case and a nice black enamel dial. Nice? Sure. Super...
View ArticleJaquet Droz Quantieme Perpetuel Calendar Watch Available On James List
Discussing Jaquet Droz watches in the US is almost futile. It isn't that you can't find this small Swatch Group brand in the US, but rather that it is extremely rare. I saw my first one in Europe...
View ArticleJaquet Droz “The Writer” Automata: Awesome Antique Android
Watch brands like to pump up their history a lot. This is especially true in Europe where with age comes legitimacy. It also helps when your history includes impressive things. A lot of today’s watch...
View ArticleJaquet Droz Grande Seconde Tourbillon Watch
This isn't the first tourbillon watch by Jaquet Droz, though it is the most elegant. A simple concept, this Grande Seconde Tourbillon takes the standard figure 8 dial design and inserts a classy...
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Jaquet Droz Grande Seconde SW Watch Review
As I wear this watch a smile comes to my face. I smirk knowing that this watch is not something that would have been designed today. This sport version of the iconic Grande Seconde watch by Jaquet Droz...
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Jaquet Droz Bird Repeater Automaton Watch
Jaquet Droz is about to officially announce their new automata-based minute repeater watch called The Bird Repeater. Yup, that's right. Last March during Basel I got to view a computer rendering...
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Jaquet Droz The Bird Repeater Watch + Video
I sat here pondering possible "bird" puns and idioms that might apply to an opening statement for discussing this extremely high-end and limited minute repeater automaton - and they all just felt...
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Jaquet Droz Grande Seconde Quantieme Watch Review
The Grande Seconde dial made the modern Jaquet Droz watch brand famous. Taken from an interesting 18th century pocket watch with a lovely figure eight style dial, the Grande Seconde wrist watch dial...
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Jaquet Droz The Charming Bird Automaton Watch Sings And Dances
Museum objects produced by Jaquet Droz and his contemporaries (seen here) in the 18th century often take the form of automaton birds geared to emulate in eerie detail actual birds complete with...
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Jaquet Droz The Bird Repeater ‘Ultra Lux’ Watch With Engraved Gold Dial And...
What you see here is a piece unique (one-of-a-kind) version of the Jaquet Droz The Bird Repeater watch. We felt that showing off this particular hand-engraved and diamond-studded version of the piece...
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Experience With Jaquet-Droz Enamel Dial Painting: Tough
A special, intimate, exclusive evening with Jaquet-Droz. Another one of the Swatch Group's sub-brands with a long history and tradition making some of the finest and most poetic timepieces available...
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Jaquet Droz Lady 8 Watch Hands-On
Increasingly, watchmakers are trying to reach that important female demographic. Advertising campaigns for much of 2014 for major watch brands will heavily appeal to women, and more and more brands are...
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Jaquet Droz Grande Heure One Hand GMT Watch Hands-On
What I like about the Jaquet Droz Grande Heure GMT watch is that it has a rather self-explanatory appeal. I don't need to discuss at length its technical merits or history to get you excited. What you...
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SalonQP 2013: A Most Personal Exhibition Of Fine Watches, Remarkable Brands...
My destination was the 2013 SalonQP fine watch exhibition, held between the 7th and 9th of November, in the Saatchi Gallery in the fabulous city of London...The article SalonQP 2013: A Most Personal...
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Only Watch 2013 Auction: Full List Of Piece Unique Watches
The Only Watch 2013 charity watch auction which occurs every other year in Monaco is coming up in September of 2013. aBlogtoWatch has created a full list (that we will update as more watches for the...
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BEST FROM: aBlogtoWatch & Friends May 7th
In the third edition of our bi-weekly roundup, we take a look at the some of my favorite watches from Baselworld 2013, which includes Hublot, Patek Philippe and Tag Heur. We also check out an interview...
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BEST FROM: aBlogtoWatch & Friends August 16th
In this edition’s roundup, we check out a mix of sports and dress watches including a hardy Bell & Ross chronograph, two affordable dive watches, the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak, Patek Philippe’s new...
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BEST FROM: aBlogtoWatch & Friends November 22, 2013
Rounding off November, we check out new watches from Omega and Jaquet Droz, Rolex's first Oyster watch, and also discuss about the possible designs of Apple's rumored iWatch. We also learn how enamel...
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My First Grail Watch: Manuel Emch
Welcome back to an original aBlogtoWatch feature, "My First Grail Watch." In this series, we ask prominent people in the watch industry about the first timepiece that they lusted after. Today, we're...
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