Petite Heure Minute

An off-centre hours-and-minutes dial sitting low, leaving most of the surface empty — which is the point, because that space is where Jaquet Droz puts its craft work: hand-painted miniatures, engraved gold appliqués, grand feu enamel, mother-of-pearl. Pierre Jaquet-Droz built automata for European courts in the eighteenth century, and the modern company is organised around that inheritance rather than around complications.

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