However, Lattman’s description could also easily apply to the activities of his company today, which has produced large-scale mechanical objects along with its watches since it was resurrected ...

Upon his return to Switzerland, he used the money from that sale to focus on his true passion: creating automata. With the help of his adoptive son, Jean-Frédéric Leschot, Jaquet Droz’s ...

Jaquet Droz and his company produced a number of "automata" and other mechanical creations meant to delight and entertain. These items often included mechanical singing birds, moving figurines ...

In 2012 Jaquet Droz released the stunning Bird Repeater ... with two hammers and two extended gongs) and miniscule automata (mechanical depictions of animals/humans). On the foundation of its ...

His three key pieces, now known as the Jaquet-Droz automata, are housed at the art and history museum in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. He also once constructed a clock that was capable of surprising ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Writer, editor, publisher and fan of all things handwritten. When founder Pierre Jaquet-Droz began producing objets d’art in ...

Automata, then, represented the pinnacle of accomplishment in a mechanistic universe, requiring considerable skill to construct. Most of their inventors, such as Pierre Jaquet-Droz, were ...

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Call them horological follies, but automata, or animated watches have become a fascinating sub-genre where the likes of Van ...

Founded in 1738 by Pierre Jaquet-Droz, a clockmaker in La Chaux-de-Fonds, the firm has long specialized in creating automata, fanciful mechanical devices that operate according to predetermined ...

Subsequent homages to original Jaquet Droz automata were realized within the confines of the company’s wristwatches, including a series of minute repeaters with dial automata that move during ...