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The 2010 watch features a minute repeater but also features a mechanical dice player. The finely painted automaton with moving arms, rolls two dice, providing the closet gambler endearing entertainment. Solid gold dial with hand painted enamel. The Calibre DR 7300 movement has 501 components including 49 jewels. It has a frequency of 18,000 vph and a 48-hour power reserve. The pusher at 1 o’clock is to lift the hands of the automaton to reveal the dice, the pusher at 5 o’clock is a two position lever which initiates the automaton’s playful trickery with the dice. The flame on the candle also changes colour. 46 mm x 43 mm case in 18k pink gold.  Priced at approximately 3.7 million Hong Kong dollars

Dior Grand Soir Etoile de Monsieur Dior (2023). Case in yellow & white gold 38mm case with a thickness of 12.80mm, with a  Mother of Pearl dial adorned with 3.11-carat diamond display, hand-engravings, water resistance up 30 meters. The watch features a unique mechanical automaton movement, time function is run by a precise quartz mechanism. Limited to 28-piece. Priced at 110,000 CHF.  This watch is the winner of the Ladies Complication prize for the 2023 GPHG.

Case is 43mm in 18k rose gold. Features a new automaton, an operable animation of running river with koi, lotus movement and other scenery, the lotus flower even changes color (random) three times every revolution; and it can run for more than 4 minutes. On the movement; the bridges and oscillating weight are hand-engraved with naturalist motifs, with carp and Lotus flowers echoing the carvings on the dial side. The non-engraved elements on the movement are also decorated (circular graining, drawn strokes) and chamfered by hand. Jaquet Droz 2653 AT2, self-winding movement; power reserve is at 68 hours. Limited to 28 pcs. Priced at 200,000CHF

• Stainless steel case at 40mm with 13.5 thickness, sapphire display caseback.
• Automatic in house movement, hour minute and moonphase
• Power reserve is 38 hrs
• Limited to 28pcs
• Priced at 19,950CHF
• Collection 2022

a walking turtle and his singing bird companion, both fully mechanical creatures. This new co-creation was developed by their friends from REUGE, the mechanical music specialists, along with a new friend: Nicolas Court, one of Switzerland’s most talented automaton experts. Press Kelys’ tail and he will start to gently walk across the table, in an amazingly realistic turtle-like gait. After a few seconds, another surprise: one of the scales on his back opens and his friend Chirp pops out, wings flapping and singing loudly. Her melody finished, Chirp dives back into the shelter provided by Kelys’ shell and he continues his walk, unfazed. This zoological surprise hides incredible mechanical know-how from our friends Reuge and Nicolas Court. Chances are you’ve heard of REUGE before; founded in 1865, they are the last remaining high-end music box and singing bird manufacture in the world. We had the pleasure of creating three otherworldly “MusicMachines” with them. Nicolas Court is perhaps lesser-known, but an absolute mechanical genius – it is extremely challenging to create an automaton like Kelys the turtle. Running on the modest power supplied by the Singing Bird mechanism, Nicolas and his team managed to create a system that puts the 1,4kg in motion thanks to low ratio gearing, while the turtle-like walk is achieved via elliptical gears and a complex cam system. As if this was not enough, there is also a friction clutch security system that detects the edge of a table or desk, stopping Kelys before he drops… and another security system to protect Chirp! Offered in 4 limited editions of just 18 pieces each in blue, yellow, green and ochre. Retail price is CHF 49,000 + VAT.

This is an amazing piece that showcase VCA’s poetic complication trademark, by far this is THE most charming watch at the SIHH 2017. The watch is a beautiful combination of craftsmanship and horology. The case is in 18k white gold (40mm), with 264 round and 8 pear shaped diamonds (8.14cts), 287 sapphires (1.27cts), MOP and plique-à-jour, champlevé, paillonné enameling technique. Automatic Valfleurier movement with a random automation (also can be on demand) to activate the butterfly (the wings will flap). power reserve 36 hours. Priced at 260,000€

Tantalum case in 42mm. Using an automaton powered by the Octa movement, the minutes are driven by a rotating disk at 12; the mobile fingers indicating the hours by its position. Automatic FFC caliber 1300.3 in 18k rose gold. Unidirectional winding rotor, power reserve is at 120hrs. Unique piece To be offered at Only Watch 2021 auctions conducted by Christie’s on Nov 6, 2021 Estimated at 300-400k CHF Sold for 4,500,000CHF

•  Inspired by the American jukebox.
• Harry Winston commissioned watchmakers Frank Orny and Johnny Girardin of which were in charged of the Metamorphosis watch at Montblanc.
• Case is in 18k white gold at 54.7mm.
• The dial is a series of stacked subsidiary dials displaying the hour (at 8 o’clock) and the minute display at 4 o’clock.
• The large case is necessary to hold the “jukebox” function – a patented automaton on the watch.
• Activating the selection button at 9 o’clock, a miniature record disc will slide out from underneath exposing one of four displays: local time, GMT time, the date, and the Harry Winston star.
• After choosing which display you want, press the button again to see it in action. Manual winding Caliber HW 4601 with 1,066 components.
• Power reserve is 68hrs Limited to 50pcs.
• Priced at 428,000CHF

• To reflect the love of ballet, Van Cleef & Arpels recreated the three- dimensional theater stage on the watch.
• A diamond-set upper dial, representing a sparkling chandelier and curtains; sculpted, engraved and hand-painted dial section of the draperies reveal ethereal ballerinas in miniature painting.
• The mechanical movement not only plays a melody, but also activates the automaton; the music box is made up of a 10-blade keyboard, plucked by pins located on the underside of the rotating disc that presents the visual animation.
• The four gongs of the carillon, struck by four hammers, offer additional notes.
• The two systems are carefully tuned to ensure perfect pitch for the 20- to 25-second melodies.
• 18k white gold case in 44.5mm set with diamonds and gems.
• The watch case amplifies the combo melody of the carillon and music box, transmitting it through a surface of paved diamonds.
• Three versions of the watch Émeraude Rubis and Diamant are available, each playing a different classical music theme: Pelléas et Mélisande, Op. 80by Gabriel Fauré (1898), Capriccio for piano and orchestra by Igor Stravinsky (1929) and Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 3 (1875). Each watch comes with a birchwood and walnut marquetry case, created in partnership with luthiers and acoustics experts, and enriched with an electronic amplifier.
• Manual winding movement with on demand musical animation, retrograde time display.
• Interchangable straps.
• Power reserve is 54 hours.
• Priced at 456000€

• Yellow, White, Pink gold case with Urushi Lacquer
• Size is 411.3 x 441.5mm
• Power reserve 192hrs
• Unique piece
• Priced at 5 to 10 million CHF