Short biography of pierre jaquet-droz the draughtsman
Short biography of pierre jaquet-droz the draughtsman poem!
Pierre Jaquet-Droz
Watchmaker from Neuchâtel (1721–1790)
Pierre Jaquet-Droz (French:[ʒakɛdʁo]; 1721–1790) was a watchmaker of the late eighteenth century.
Short biography of pierre jaquet-droz the draughtsman
He was born on 28 July 1721 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, in the Principality of Neuchâtel, which was then part of the Kingdom of Prussia.[1] He lived in Paris, London, and Geneva, where he designed and built animated dolls known as automata to help his firm sell watches and mechanical caged songbirds.
The Jaquet Droz luxury watch brand is now owned by The Swatch Group.[2]
Notable works
Constructed between 1768 and 1774 by Pierre Jaquet-Droz, his son Henri-Louis (1752-1791), and Jean-Frédéric Leschot (1746-1824), the automata include The Writer (made of 6000 pieces), The Musician (2500 pieces), and The Draughtsman (2000 pieces).
His astonishing mechanisms fascinated the kings and emperors of Europe, China, India and Japan.
Some consider these devices to be the oldest examples of the comp