Jaquet Droz / The Bird Repeater
Jaquet Droz The Bird Repeater
Collection profile · 2012
A high-complication automata minute repeater centered on hand-engraved birds and an expressive animated dial, carrying forward Jaquet Droz’s historic bird automata language into a 47 mm contemporary wristwatch.
Why it matters
It is one of Jaquet Droz’s clearest modern signatures: an automata-plus-minute-repeater showcase that links the brand’s 18th-century mechanical artistry with present-day high watchmaking.
Key references
Collection timeline
- 2024 — Jaquet Droz continues to position Bird Repeater as a core automata showcase on its current product pages.
- 2024 — The brand’s official archive highlights The Bird Repeater Openwork as a later interpretation of the original concept.
- 2024 — The Tropical Bird Repeater shows the same bird-automata-minute-repeater formula adapted into a new scene and palette.
More from Jaquet Droz
- Grande Seconde — The Grande Seconde is Jaquet Droz’s emblematic off-center signature collection, built around the brand’s historic large seconds display and a refined two-register dial architecture that links modern haute horlogerie to Pierre Jaquet-Droz’s eighteenth-century pocket-watch heritage.
- Petite Heure Minute — The Petite Heure Minute is Jaquet Droz’s compact, off-centered canvas for métiers d’art, using its small hours-and-minutes architecture to showcase miniature painting, enamel, engraving, lacquer, minerals, and mother-of-pearl with strong decorative emphasis.
- Loving Butterfly Automaton — The Loving Butterfly Automaton is Jaquet Droz’s poetic automaton-watch series that turns the Petite Heure Minute-style dial into a miniature stage, animating a cherub and butterfly through a crown-activated mechanism while showcasing the maison’s blend of métiers d’art and mechanical theater.