PRESS RELEASE
LES DEUX FUSEAUX MEDIUM
Hommage La Chaux-de-Fonds1738
With "Les Deux Fuseaux Medium", Manufacture Jaquet Droz measures time for dreams and time for action, while honouring the exceptional personality of its founder.
Twice I consult my watch,
And twice my distracted eye
Notes the hand in the same spot;
Pointing to an hour... an hour later, by and by.
Théophile Gautier, The Watch.
An hour, London or Lisbon time. An hour later, Paris or Venice time. The poetry of a chosen hour that has nothing to do with time zones. There is a time for action and a time for reflection. A time to make choices and a time for thought. A time to travel and time to stay home. Time here and elsewhere. Woman and man, two perceptions of time: daily time to count the hours, dream time to mark each passing minute.
The first GMT model with a steel case offered by the Manufacture Jaquet Droz, "Les Deux Fuseaux Medium" elegantly captures the eternal dilemma of the human heart. With this handsome steel 41mm case containing a horological complication, the manufacture from La Chaux-de-Fonds achieves a performance: connoisseurs will appreciate this instrument of measurement, made available in a non-limited edition, not only for its total accuracy but also for its grace.
The poetry of this timepiece resides in its two subdials. One is for official conventional time rigorously measured with indicators on a ring attached by two blued steel screws and centred hour-minute hands sweeping against an opaline black background. The second is for private time, indicated by Roman numerals on the off-centred dial at 12 o'clock. Two perceptions of time, united in a shared seconds subdial at 6 o'clock, whose seconds hand and Arabic numerals seem to say that the distance between dream and reality is imperceptible. Jaquet Droz enhances this literary concept of time with a date indicator at 3 o'clock, a 24-hour dial at 9 o'clock, a smooth-polished case, an engraved crown and a cambered crystal.
With its perfectly engineered mechanisms and sleek contemporary lines, "Les Deux Fuseaux Medium" takes its rightful place in the "Hommage La Chaux-de-Fonds 1738" Collection, a reference to the founding date of this one-of-a-kind manufacture. The timepiece also pays tribute to the daring founder Pierre Jaquet Droz, a man of vision who set off to conquer the royal courts of France and Spain over two hundred years ago. Hailed by the kings and queens of Europe, he wrote from Madrid in 1759: "I was again called into the presence of His Majesty, who deigned honour me with several marks of good will". The traveller remained loyal to his native Jura Mountains in Switzerland, even when separated from them by time and space. By launching "Les Deux Fuseaux Medium", the Manufacture Jaquet Droz salutes this fidelity as well as the time-honoured values of the Manufacture as it moves into the third millennium, celebrating the individual as a private person as well as a citizen of the world.