03.10.2020

The Museum Stories cycle on Saturdays: "The Amazing Clock of Pierre Jaquet-Droz" (video)

We continue our Saturday cycle "Museum Stories" and invite you to get acquainted with the next video - today it is a story about the amazing clocks created by the Swiss watchmaker and inventor Pierre Jaquet-Droz.

We have already mentioned these unique clocks, acquainted you with the life story of the prominent Swiss watchmaker Pierre Jaquet-Droz family and their partners in our first issue of the “Audio Stories” cycle.

The museum Collection exposition features table andconsole clocks, pocket watches, singing bird clocks, snuffboxes and caskets created by representatives of this famous dynasty.

S.N. Lebedeva, the senior researcher of the museum «Collection», is the narrator and compiler of the presented material.