{"id":31790,"date":"2018-12-04T09:00:47","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T07:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/?p=31790"},"modified":"2018-12-03T12:15:27","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T10:15:27","slug":"focus-jaquet-droz-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/nouveaute-en-n-en\/focus-2\/focus-jaquet-droz-3.html","title":{"rendered":"Focus: Jaquet Droz"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>Lady 8 Flower<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>CASE<\/strong> : 18K red gold set with 114 diamond (1.40ct), waterresistant to 30m, sapphire caseback. 18K red gold petals, briolette-cut diamond (0.24ct)<\/p>\n<p><strong>SIZE<\/strong> : 35mm<\/p>\n<p><strong>MOVEMENT<\/strong> : mechanical self-winding Jaquet Droz 615 caliber, 21,600 vph, 38h power reserve, with mechanical automaton movement driving the opening of the flower<\/p>\n<p><strong>FUNCTIONS<\/strong> : hours, minutes<\/p>\n<p><strong>DIAL<\/strong> : domed, relief-engraved white mother-of-pearl, 18K red gold inner bezel ring set with 88 diamonds (0.17ct), hands and nameplate in 18K red gold<\/p>\n<p><strong>STRAP<\/strong> : rolled-edge hand-crafted white alligator leather, 18K red gold folding clasp set with 47 diamonds (0.47ct)<\/p>\n<p><strong>EIGHT-PIECE LIMITED EDITION<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Mechanical bloom<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At Jaquet Droz, the long-running history of the Maison in the realm of automatons is not confined to archives and museums. Jaquet Droz continues to create mechanical animations, but on a different scale. So what\u2019s that got to do with this exquisitely feminine Lady 8 Flower watch ? A mere press on the 2 o\u2019clock button causes a red gold lotus flower to bloom in the upper part of the watch \u2013 corresponding to the upper loop of the figure 8 featured on the dial. And the animation doesn\u2019t stop there, since the petals reveal in parting a diamond that spins in one direction when the flower opens, and in the other when it closes, after about eight seconds \u2013 yet another nod to the brand\u2019s cherished symbolic number. Alongside this automaton part of the watch, the \u2018remainder\u2019 of this creation is a vision of white mother-of-pearl, red gold and diamonds. The dial is carpeted with iridescent white flowers relief-engraved by hand, rimmed by a slim inner bezel ring set with 88 diamonds and a bezel adorned with 114 diamonds. This floral theme would doubtless have appealed to Pierre Jaquet-Droz, creator of the famous automatons in an age when naturalism was all the rage. The finishing touch is set by a white alligator leather strap and the last mention of the figure 8 refers to the limited edition. There is also a Grand Feu blue enamel dial version of this Lady 8 Flower.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lady 8 Flower CASE : 18K red gold set with 114 diamond (1.40ct), waterresistant to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":31787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[80,1674],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31790"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31791,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31790\/revisions\/31791"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}