SAVE THE DATE   Within every Timepiece lies a secret And for every secret there is a matching code… enter a world of discovery at the opening of the jaquet droz manufacture exhibition Les codes essentiels   FROM 5 PM TO 9 PM ON DECEMBER 12TH 2007, IN LA CITÉ DU TEMPS Tous les Garde-Temps renferment des secrets a chaque secret correspond un code … un monde a decouvrir, LORS DU VERNISSAGE DE L’EXPOSITION DE LA MANUFACTURE JAQUET DRO...

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the Grande Heure Minute in white and black enamel which had their debut in Basel 2006. Perhaps there is no such thing as an inexpensive Jaquet Droz watch but on a recent trip to my AD these two watches stood out in the field of other J*D contenders sitting in the display case. First released in 2006 these were the "second generation" Grande Heure Minute models.  The original Grande Heure Minute with the grey slate dial released in 2005 sold out pretty quickly at the manufacture level because of sp...

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 is "La Date Astrale".until today i had not seen this piece in the metal, but only through two pictures; one of which was the press release pic. and, like most pics, it did not do the watch any justice at all...before seeing it, i thought the concept was really cool, but 39mm??? i automatically labeled it a lady's watch. how wrong of me...with the flash on, the dial looks a bit like the black enamel. but it's not at all...like most J*D watches, this one is impossible to photograph. firstly because the ...

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