Jaquet Droz’s Bird Repeater Fall of the Rhine automaton timepiece.
Jaquet Droz’s Bird Repeater Fall of the Rhine automaton timepiece. Sculpted from red gold, the watch’s hand-engraved and hand-painted mother-of-pearl dial bears a scene that comes alive with a push of its minute repeater slide: The redstart birds move to feed the eager chicks before the blue egg hatches.
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