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An Enamel Technique Boosts This $42,000 Watch Fit for Royal Wrists
The Jaquet Droz Grande Seconde Paillonée is limited to eight exquisite pieces.
The Jaquet Droz Grande Seconde Paillonée measures 43mm across.
Photographer: Joyce Lee for Bloomberg Businessweek
Pierre Jaquet Droz created his first clockmaking studio in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, in 1738. Over the course of the next half-century, his mechanical wizardry became famous in the courts of Europe. The clocks delighted the aristocracy, and some of his automatons—rudimentary computers shaped to look and perform like humans—still function. A hallmark of his pocket watch designs is a figure eight of overlapping dials, illustrated nicely on this $42,000 Grande Seconde Paillonée in rose gold for your wrist.
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