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.
More info:
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
