2013/07/27

Jaquet Droz The Twelve Cities Aventurine

 

Small Complications

With The Twelve Cities Aventurine and The Eclipse Mother-of-Pearl, the emblematic complications traditionally presented in 43 mm cases are now presented in 39 mm models and enshrine the magic of travel in the finest raw materials.

With their exceptional beauty and great delicacy, mother-of-pearl and aventurine are skillfully worked by the Jaquet Droz master craftsmen. This year, two new watches with a smaller diameter have been created to combine the brilliance of these materials with the brand’s best-loved traditional watch complications: time zones and the moon phases.

The Twelve Cities Aventurine

With its blue alligator strap, The Twelve Cities Aventurine helps the seasoned traveler keep time in twelve different capital cities.

The eyes are drawn to this magnificent oval mother-of-pearl disk, now completely redesigned for women, and meticulously inlaid inside an aventurine dial. The local time appearing in the aperture at 12 o’clock echoes the time in the selected city displayed at 6 o’clock. As for the minutes, they are indicated with a single lancine-type hand.

With a jumping hour system, the model can be easily personalized, displaying the cities chosen by its owner.