Jaquet Droz is the Swiss artistic-watch and automata maison founded by Pierre Jaquet-Droz in La Chaux-de-Fonds in 1738, continuing his legacy through unique mechanical works combining automata, tourbillons, engraving, enamel, sculpture and miniature painting.
Open in The Dial AtlasThe Jaquet Droz entry in The Dial Atlas currently connects 51 cataloged references across 24 families. The catalog records 1738 as its founding year and Switzerland as its associated country. The maker is organized here as a navigable set of family and exact-reference records. These counts describe the structured archive available on this site, not the brand's complete historical output.
Start with Tourbillon Skelet (6 references), Petite Heure Minute Ateliers d'Art (5 references), Tourbillon Artistic (5 references), Grande Seconde Off-Centered Chronograph (4 references), and The Charming Bird (4 references). Each family page keeps related watches together while preserving the reference codes, production periods, variants, and imagery that distinguish one execution from another. This makes the brand page a practical index for moving from a maker-level overview to the evidence attached to an individual watch.
Use the family links below to compare catalog breadth, follow production generations, and open the interactive Atlas view. Where the source data is available, reference dossiers surface case and dial details, movements, complications, nicknames, and current or discontinued status. The archive is designed to make both celebrated models and less familiar executions discoverable through stable, ordinary links.