Tourbillon Grenouille

Description

The mixture of fauna and flora that is the Boucheron bestiary has been brought together again. In their ownfusion, these new creations embody the watch-making magic that the House, founded in 1858 and the first openup 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 thewatchful eye of the animal kingdom, what an unusual and exciting way of transforming time into a whimsicalaccomplice. These fascinating and precious creatures, which seem to have escaped from a rainforest painted byMax Ernst or Rousseau, hold tightly onto a lightweight tourbillon frame, the slightly off-center position of whichattracts the viewers attention.Set by hand by the master jewelers of the Maison Boucheron, this fine sculpture shaped like a frog is ornamentedwith nearly 200 multicolored sapphires, rubies and tsavorites and serves to focus the attention on to the technicaljewel it guards so jealously. Once this fascinating wildlife, born of the creativity of the firms craftsmen has beentamed by your gaze, a tourbillon is revealed, the mobile carriage of which has been fashioned such that it lookslike a trellis on which precious foliage is growing, set with diamonds, materializing the circular passing of secondsin delightfully poetic fashion.The mechanical caliber is manually wound caliber, visible through the watchs transparent bottom. In addition tothe tourbillon at the center of which can be seen a balance, taking its inspiration from marine chronometers usedduring the age of discovery, the movement includes bridges shaped like a frog. And last of all, the ticking whichcan be heard from the heart of the watch gives a unique dimension to this wrist-worn shadow, which seems tobreathe with life.

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