Shimmery, singing birds flit from perch to perch and a butterfly flaps its hand-painted, iridescent wings above an animated fountain on a three-tune musical automaton birdcage clock by Bautte ...

Miniaturizing Pierre Jaquet Droz’s singing birds meant that practically every mechanism had to be reimagined, so Marc enlisted the help of François Junod, a modern-day expert with automata and ...

It's a cross-disciplinary trade. I mostly work with antique clock or watch based objects that perform specific functions. Anything from making a facsimile of a living thing, called an automaton ...

Jaquet Droz continues to build on the company’s 280-year-long expertise in automaton timepieces with two new editions of its Charming Bird watch.

Way back in 2013, Jaquet Droz first revealed its Charming Bird watch that paid tribute to the company’s namesake with a tiny animated automaton bird inside. And now, nearly two years later, we ...