Jaquet Droz L’Origine Email

The Swiss watch Manufacture Jaquet Droz has revealed another member of the Hommage Londres 1774 Collection family.

Featuring an elegant stainless steel case with Grand Feu enameled dial and delicate hour and minute hands, the L’Origine Email is one of the best “classic” dress watches currently available on the market. And it is more or less affordable, too.

Being affordable, these simple beauties will be offered at a recommended street price of CHF9,990, which roughly converts to $8700 or €6600.

For the money, you will get a very elegant watch with a stainless steel case 43 mm in diameter with either ivory or black (my favorite) Grand Feu enameled dial (Grand Feu is a name of an old technique of creating enameling, which is particularly pure and resistant to dents and scratches.) The watch with the ivory dial comes fit with blued hour, minute and central sweep second hands, while the timepiece with a black dial sports a set of white gold hour and minute hands and, again, a blued second hand.

The Jaquet Droz L’Origine Email comes powered by the Jaquet Droz 1153, self-winding mechanical movement, which is, to my understanding, based on the Frederic Piguet Cal. 1153 movement (you can also find this caliber in, say, some Radiomir and Blancpain models.) Of course, the movement features a nicely decorated oscillating weight made of 22-carat white gold.

This is a really nice timepiece. Too bad, it is still a little bit out of my budget limits.

Jaquet Droz L’Origine Email watch’s specification:

Price range: CHF 9,990
Movement: Jaquet Droz 1153, mechanical, automatic, ultra-thin, double barrel, 28,800 vph, 22 ct gold rotor, hand-decorated
Complications: N/A
Power reserve: 68 hours
Case material: Stainless steel
Case dimensions: 43 mm
Case height: N/A
Dial: Ivory or black, enameled
Water resistance: 30 m
Strap: Rolled-edge hand made black alligator leather strap with a stainless steel ardillon buckle
Crystal: Sapphire