It is a unusual pleasure to revive a timepiece

Parmigiani Fleurier as well as a La Vieille Russie, the new York antiques gallery specializing in European and American antique jewellery and Russian works of art, are teaming up to existing Mechanical Miracles: Antique Automatons and Contemporary Watchmaking, offering view collectors and connoisseurs a distinctive chance to celebrate the art of watchmaking. The exhibition from the Sandoz Assortment, which will probably be exhibited in Ny at A La Vieille Russie from Oct 26th - November 26th, marks the initial time that a lot of of the items will likely be on show towards the American public. The exhibition characteristics mechanical marvels in the previous, operates of Faberge like the Imperial Peacock and Swan eggs, and modern timepiece creations of Parmigiani Fleurier.

Maurice Sandoz, a writer, composer and collector of timepieces and automatons, had an eye for excellent parts. Upon his arrival inside the United states in 1941, Sandoz started to cultivate a near romantic relationship with a La Vieille Russie. Via this romantic relationship, Sandoz acquired in 1954 the celebrated Imperial Swan Egg, designed through the jeweler Peter Carl Faberge. The Sandoz Collection now includes several items from the legendary Russian jeweler, including the Miniature Piano, the Imperial Peacock Egg, the Youssoupoff Clock, the Golden Peacock, and obviously, the Imperial Swan Egg - all of which is going to be on display all through the show.

While every single piece inside the Sandoz Collection features many different special capabilities, Parmigiani selected to recreate two with the pieces' mechanisms in tribute to the occasion - 1 of that is a timepiece with telescopic palms that run around the circumference of an oval-shaped dial and the second an elaborate minute repeater with cathedral chimes and the time exhibited inside a half-moon aperture with several hours passing by - a nod for the inventiveness in the master watchmakers of the previous. On the back again in the calibre, the blued steel cathedral chimes are available in the hugely original serpentine shape spherical the movement, completely visible through the sapphire crystal caseback.

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