Reuge Collection Voliere de la Cour Singing Birds in Gilt brass Cage
$9,900.00
The updated Reuge Voliere 2024 is on its way to our Music House Shop.
About the year 1780 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Jaccquet-Droz invented the mechanical singing bird. This movement imitated the movements of birds and reproduced the birdsong very authentically. It contains a leather bellows and piston whistle assembly. About 60 years later it was perfected by the Baise Bontems workshop in Paris. In 1960 Reuge took over Bontems, as well as Eschles production in Germany. In this way tradition has been safeguarded.
To this day Reuge continues the manufacture of singing birds in the traditional manner. Birds are painstakingly feathered by hand and colors change according to artist feathering the bird. Dimensions are 6 3/8 inch diameter x 12 inch high. Currently available in gilt brass and guilloche motif base with Delightful!
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Details:
Priced in CHF Gilt cage, guilloché base Automaton movement with two singing birds Movement composed of 250 mechanical pieces, assembled by hand in our workshops in Sainte-Croix, Switzerland. Genuine Humming Bird feathers. Running reserve: about 14 minutes for intermittent bird song and 2 minutes for continuous bird song.
