When it comes to watches from Jaquet Droz, one has to remember that despite the technical innovation it showcases with its complex and refined movements, the brand has always reached for the finest aesthetics in terms of design beauty. Its Grande Seconde collection, with its signature figure-eight dial layout, is not only technically innovative in its mechanics but also one of the most iconic and easily recognizable designs in the watch industry overall.

With the launch of the Grande Seconde Skelet-One Tourbillon in 2021, Jaquet Droz paves the way for a new artistic horizon by revealing a tourbillon through meticulous geometry. Working like an “architect of light,” the timepiece is developed with sculptural, modern, and powerful aesthetics in mind, as evidenced by its openworked mechanics.
Housed in a 41-mm case made of rose gold, the watch follows the same design principle as the Grande Seconde Skelet-One but in this model adds a tourbillon, poised in the top half of the movement. The matte black bridges, of the skeletonized movement offer the perfect contrast against the geometry of the tourbllon cage and the golden elements of the two openworked subdials.

The face of the watch consists of two ?multi-tier? dials ? one crafted from sapphire and displaying the seconds, minutes and hours on rings marked by gold indexes. The second dial, in smoky quartz, is almost invisible but gives the timepiece the classic figure-eight shape for which Jaque...