Swiss watchmaker Jacquet Droz has just released a new version of their incredible timepiece, The Bird Repeater, celebrating the city where the company was founded. The company’s founder, Pierre Jacquet-Droz, set up shop in Geneva in 1784, where the company made some of the most complicated watches at the time and still does to this day.
The Bird Repeater Geneva watch is limited to 8 pieces and takes the original Bird Repeater watch’s complications with new decorations on the dial. Instead of the background of wilderness, the new version of the watch features a scene from Lake Geneva and Jet d’Eau fountain and lighthouse.
The birds on this watch are a family of goldfinches, which includes one of the parents feeding a worm to the baby birds, the other parent spreading its wings, and an egg hatching revealing a newborn baby goldfinch. In the original Bird Repeater watch, there’s an animated waterfall, in the Geneva edition that waterfall is the animation of water falling back down that’s been sent up the stationary water fountain.
The Jacquet Droz Bird Repeater Geneva watches come in 18k rose gold cases, measuring 47mm x 18.7mm, covered on both sides by sapphire crystal. The watches are powered by in-house caliber RMA88 hand-wound mechanical movements with 48 hours power reserve and are not water resistant at all. No word on pricing but the original watch was priced just under $500,000, so we’re assuming pricing in a similar range. Via: JD
