Jaquet Droz Brings Back The Era Of Rock & Roll With The Rolling Stone Automaton

Jaquet Droz is taking on an icon of rock history: the «Some Girls» album from The Rolling Stones. Its cover had to be significantly changed to align with the standards of the time. A backdrop that the highly disruptive Jaquet Droz could not help but revisit, devoting a unique piece to this monumental work of graphic art, and paying an irreverent homage to this album, which was released over 45 years ago. It is to this cult album and its graphic twists and turns that Jaquet Droz is today paying tribute. This creation also steps away from the beaten track. It is a unique piece, in line with the Jaquet Droz Philosophy of the Unique, which has seen the brand cease all production of series watches. It is an automaton, in the finest tradition of Jaquet Droz, shaped by two centuries of experience. It is made entirely by hand. 

At the heart of this piece sits a portrait of Mick Jagger, reinterpreted in a unique graphic style in the spirit of «Some Girls». He is the master of timekeeping on this Stones piece: he has the privilege of counting the hours and minutes thanks to two hand-polished gold hands. At the centre of composition is The Stones' natural habitat: the stage. It includes a miniature engraving of all of the band's instruments, Ron Wood and Keith Richards' guitars, the minimalist drum kit of Charlie Watts, and Jagger's microphone and harmonica – the latter measuring a few tenths of a millimetre. Each instrument is crafted by hand from a block of unfinished gold and sits over the original cover of «Some Girls», reproduced entirely using miniature painting.