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Jaquet Droz Tropical Bird Repeater Watch
Jaquet Droz is among the most unique of the Swatch Group’s high-end brands, known for their excellence in traditional decoration methods as well as their use of?automata, or moving mechanical devices meant to imitate life. The Jaquet Droz Tropical Bird Repeater is the latest creation of mechanical artistry from the?La Chaux-de-Fonds manufacture, celebrating the Enlightenment-era passion for nature and animals of brand founder and namesake Pierre Jaquet-Droz.Pierre Jaquet-Droz opened his first workshop in 1738, and within a few decades had become known internationally as a master of elaborate pocket watches, mechanical singing birds, and automata. In 1759, Droz presented a mechanical clock to?King Ferdinand VI of Spain, featuring a shepherd playing the flute and a dog guarding a basket of apples. When the King reached forward to take one of the apples, the mechanical dog began barking with such a natural sound that the King’s own dog began barking in response, and most of th
Review Of The Casio G-Shock GS-1200-1AJF Watch On WatchReport.com
Reviewed today is the Casio G-Shock GS-1200-1AJF. We’ve done a fair number of G-Shock reviews here on WatchReport, but this one might be the most unusual to date. To give you an idea why, here’s the specifications for the GS-1200: * New tough movement calibre 5046 assembled on a new factory line just for this line. (More on this below.)* Solar powered with six-month power reserve.* Radio-set, six bands (US, UK, Germany, Japan x2, China).* Hour, minute, second, date (with a neat matching red date wheel as shown).* Settable timezone in 1-hour increments (if you need fractional you have to disable automatic time setting).* Stainless steel case with screwed caseback.* Resin strap.* 200m (660ft) water resistant.* Luminous material applied to hands and hour markers.* 46mm by 14.1mm, 87g weight.