The automaton moves around while flapping its wings and moving its beak.
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So how does it work? On demand, the wearer is able to activate the bird (the charming little bird) to move and sing in full display on the dial. What is possible of course is for Jaquet Droz to produce fascinating halo products such as The Charming Bird that while rare, do in fact work as salable proof of concept works that are true recreations of the technological art form that Jaquet Droz was known for. The challenge of course is taking extremely complicated things such as The Writer automaton and somehow incorporate them into the brand’s larger modern collection of products. One thing that Jaquet Droz has which most historically-based brands don’t, is an incredibly rich set of intellectual assets to build off of today. Jaquet Droz smartly designed The Charming Bird with an open movement architecture so that the entire mechanism is visible.īoth The Charming Bird and the Bird Repeater are highly limited edition watches, but their value to Jaquet Droz is more about proving that the modern brand can keep up with its history. The remarkable movement developed by Jaquet Droz is exactly what the brand should have been working on from day one. The Charming Bird watch features a bubble in the sapphire crystal for the bird, and a mechanical bird call to reproduce the sounds of a bird song. These machines were often parts of ornate clocks.įor the first time ever, Jaquet Droz has produced a miniature automaton bird small enough to put into a timepiece.
The mechanical bird figurines were designed to often have moving heads, wings, and even beaks.
A small air hole would whistle, sounding remarkably like a real bird. Bird songs were produced by moving a piston style tube in and out of a shaft rapidly. Museum objects produced by Jaquet Droz and his contemporaries (seen here) in the 18th century often take the form of automaton birds geared to emulate in eerie detail actual birds complete with movement and sound.
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