The Swiss watchmaking firm Jaquet Droz has short-circuited the 18th and 21st centuries with the Charming Bird. It's a wristwatch that includes a tiny automaton bird inside the crystal, that sings and ...
Our cats were both sleeping near the computer and these videos were driving them nuts. To our ears these birdsongs sound pretty good. They didn’t trick the cats into stalking mode, but they did spark ...
The company refers to these exceptional creations as the “art of astonishment,” and indeed these pieces take an incredible amount of detail and hours to create and are often years in development ...
Today’s incarnation of Jaquet Droz has become incredibly good at miniaturizing the automata that its founder Pierre Jaquet Droz became famous for making in the late 1700s. In fact, Pierre Jaquet ...
This essay is excerpted from Strange Frequencies by Peter Bebergal, published by Penguin/TarcherPerigree. In an enormous Goodwill in Seattle, the horologist (a watchmaker and expert in related devices ...
Appraisal: Swiss Bird Automaton, ca. 1900, from Special: Somethings Wild. In ROADSHOW'S Special: Somethings Wild, Christopher Barber appraises a Swiss bird automaton ...
It’s hard to look back at 120 year old devices like this and think of them as technology. Where’s the touchscreen, the OS, the battery? But this 19th century automaton that produces remarkably ...
A 19TH CENTURY curio is heading to the US after it sold for more than 40 times its auction estimate. Made in about 1880, the bird automaton was sold at at Thomas Watson’s recent fine art, antiques and ...
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