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Extraordinary automata
Life, Noko, Published on 09/10/2020
» One of Jaquet Droz's 18th-century android automata, The Draughtsman, amazingly sketched a cherub on a chariot chasing a butterfly. Dating back to 1774, the drawing titled Le Papillon Conduit Par L'Amour (Butterfly Driven By Love) comes alive in Loving Butterfly Automaton.
The thinnest of margins
Life, Noko, Published on 05/06/2020
» Almost as thin as two credit cards, the Altiplano Ultimate Concept is the world's thinnest mechanical watch engineered by Piaget, who's been obsessed with slim movements since the late 1950s. Its hand-wound Calibre 9P, created in 1957, is only 2mm thin.
Working wonders
Life, Noko, Published on 25/10/2019
» A dial's limited space challenges artisans to work wonders on faces of exceptional timepieces released each year by Hermès Horloger.