Tourbillon Grenouille

Caracteristics

Description

The mixture of fauna and flora that is the Boucheron bestiary has been brought together again. In their own

fusion, these new creations embody the watch-making magic that the House, founded in 1858 and the first open

up a boutique on place Vendome, has made its specialty.

Combining visual and material perfection by uniting the very best in watch-making with jewelry, all under the

watchful eye of the animal kingdom, what an unusual and exciting way of transforming time into a whimsical

accomplice. These fascinating and precious creatures, which seem to have escaped from a rainforest painted by

Max Ernst or Rousseau, hold tightly onto a lightweight tourbillon frame, the slightly off-center position of which

attracts the viewer's attention.

Set by hand by the master jewelers of the Maison Boucheron, this fine sculpture shaped like a frog is ornamented

with nearly 200 multicolored sapphires, rubies and tsavorites and serves to focus the attention on to the technical

jewel it guards so jealously. Once this fascinating wildlife, born of the creativity of the firm's craftsmen has been

tamed by your gaze, a tourbillon is revealed, the mobile carriage of which has been fashioned such that it looks

like a trellis on which precious foliage is growing, set with diamonds, materializing the circular passing of seconds

in delightfully poetic fashion.

The mechanical caliber is manually wound caliber, visible through the watch's transparent bottom. In addition to

the tourbillon at the center of which can be seen a balance, taking its inspiration from marine chronometers used

during the age of discovery, the movement includes bridges shaped like a frog. And last of all, the ticking which

can be heard from the heart of the watch gives a unique dimension to this wrist-worn shadow, which seems to

breathe with life.