Borrowed Time: Jaquet Droz Grande Seconde Skelet-One
You can do a lot with a figure eight. Over the years, Jaquet Droz has used its iconic Grande Seconde dial configuration ? a figure-eight design with a small subdial for the hours and minutes atop a larger subdial for the seconds ? as the template for numerous variations. In recently released models, the larger subdial has hosted a second-time-zone display (I review that watch here) and a moon-phase, for example. With the new and somewhat oddly named Grande Seconde Skelet-One, introduced this year at Baselworld, the brand has introduced its boldest and most unusual take on the Grande Seconde to date.
The Jaquet Droz Grande Seconde Skelet-One is the brand’s first skeleton watch.
I had a chance to review the watch ? Jaquet Droz?s first foray into the niche horological realm of skeletonization ? in its black ceramic case (models with a white-gold and rose-gold case are also offered). It is from first glance a timepiece that draws the eye, with its latticework of horological components, stripped down to their barest essentials, on full display behind a wide sapphire dial, which is framed by a narrow, black ceramic bezel with a sleek polished finish. The Grande Seconde’s figure-eight design is given a twist in the Skelet-One.
The clear sapphire dial is framed by a thin black bezel.
The shiny ebony case is a modest 41.5 mm in diameter and just 12.48 mm thick, smaller than I have come to expect from Jaquet Droz, which tends to go a little bigger to allow its two stack...
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