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The Jaquet Droz Swiss watch manufacture produce truly stunning and elegant watches with exceptional innovative watch movements. As pure as they are elegant, two new versions of this iconic model celebrate the expertise and excellence of Jaquet Droz.

The first question to answer when looking at these new models is what is beauty? First and foremost, it is a story – and these new watches feature a truly stunning story. For nearly three hundred years, Jaquet Droz has told it from every angle. A vituoso of decorative arts as well as mechanical complications, the brand known by its twin stars has retained a sense of what is essential: a taste for simplicity. Anticipating the “less is more” aesthetics so dear to contemporary designers, restrained sophistication has been one of its signatures as well as one of its key creative principles.

Jaquet Droz Grande Seconde Quantieme Satin Brushed Anthracite and Grey

This has led to the creation of two new models of the iconic Grande Seconde Quantième. The watch is instantly recognized by collectors and connoisseurs thanks to its two off-center dials, majestic direct-drive seconds hand and pointer-type date display hightlighted with a touch of intense red. The emblematic silhouette is now displayed on a dial featuring a sunray finish, which helps capture and diffuse rays of light, creating fascinating iridescence type effect. Two shades are available – anthracite, equipped with hands in rhodium-plated steel, and grey, with hands in blued steel.

Jaquet Droz Grande Seconde Quantieme Satin Brushed Anthracite and Grey

Each version is available with a diameter of 39 or 43mm. Playing on the theme of light and the meticulously studied volumes of the white gold indexes, these Grande Seconde Quantieème Satin-Brushed watches diffuse a distinctive brilliance, matched by the irreplaceable quality of the new hand-made straps in light brown and slate grey alligator leather. The sleek silhouette of the horns, the convex appliques and perfect curves of the bezel and steel case strengthen the true beauty of this watch. Lastly, the date, located on an incline on the dial at six o’clock, brings an added touch of modernity to this work of visual architecture.

Jaquet Droz Grande Seconde Quantieme Satin Brushed Anthracite and Grey

A stunning model of refinement, the Grande Seconde Quantième Satin-Brushed watches are also examples of the watchmaking prowess at Jaquet Droz. In order to guarantee even greater reliability, the balance spring and pallet horns of the self-winding movement have been made with silicon. With unparalleled flexibility, silicon is a material that is perfectly stable over time and can withstand shock and variations in temperature, pressure and magnetic fields. Few watchmaking manufactures have mastered the techniques required to integrate it into their timepieces. Combining technological advances, watchmaking mastery and aesthetic perfection, with the Grande Seconde Quantième Satin-Brushed, the brand known by its twin stars offers two new icons whose elegance and precision, at once classic and contemporary, defy the passage of time and create a legacy for themselves.

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