The latest collection of watches from the manufacture Jaquet Droz was encouraged by Pierre Jaquet Droz’s traditional use of brilliant blue, while creating exclusive horological items.La Ligne Bleue is an exceptional new Jaquet Droz timepiece assemblage, expected to be launched in a limited edition of just eight pieces for the five versions it will include.
Watch enthusiasts consider Jaquet Droz timekeeping companions to be a benchmark of excellence, due to the finest craftsmanship - especially as to the dial work - it is distinguished by.
The brand earned its fame as a bastion of the rare art of grand feu, which is a special technique of powdered enamels turning into an extremely deep and rich surface through a painstaking and very delicate multi-step firing process.
Each of Jaquet Droz enamel dials, white or black, needs from fifteen to twenty firings to be completed. The blue dials of the La Ligne Bleue line happen to be even more demanding: the number of individual firings for manufacturing each blue enamel dial should be no less than twenty.
Not all of these dials will successfully go through the firing process and just a few will meet the requirements of the brand’s quality control standard, eventually incorporated by the La Ligne Bleue watch.
Quantieme Perpetuel, a graceful model, coming with a perpetual calendar complication with serpentine retrograde hands for days of the week as well as the month, is the most complex of the five La Ligne Bleue timekeeping companions.
The Grande Seconde and Grande Seconde Medium are a reflection of Jaquet Droz design signatures, which reveal the traditional dials overlapping each other to create the number “8”. The Grande Date timepiece is a combination of functionality and chic minimalism with its off-centered hour and minute counter, located over a clearly legible large date indicator.
The final representative of the Jaquet Droz assemblage – the one not rendered in 18-karat white gold- is the elegant and extremely sophisticated L'Origine Email timepiece.
The exclusive blue enamel dial of this Jaquet Droz timepiece made of stainless steel is an embodiment of classicism – Roman numerals hour markers are arrayed around iconic centralized indications for the hour, minutes, and seconds. The L'Origine Email is accompanied by a brilliant blue strap made of hand-sewn alligator leather and an ardillon buckle with the Jaquet Droz insignia on it.
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