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Parmigiani Fleurier along with a La Vieille Russie, the newest York antiques gallery specializing in European and American antique jewellery and Russian functions of art, are teaming up to present Mechanical Wonders: Antique Automatons and Modern Watchmaking, supplying watch collectors and connoisseurs a special opportunity to celebrate the artwork of watchmaking. The exhibition in the Sandoz Collection, which will probably be exhibited in Ny at A La Vieille Russie from October 26th - November 26th, marks the initial time that many of the parts is going to be on display to the American public. The exhibition functions mechanical marvels from the previous, functions of Faberge which includes the Imperial Peacock and Swan eggs, and contemporary timepiece creations of Parmigiani Fleurier.

Maurice Sandoz, a writer, composer and collector of timepieces and automatons, had an eye for excellent parts. On his arrival inside the Usa in 1941, Sandoz started to cultivate a near relationship having a La Vieille Russie. Through this relationship, Sandoz acquired in 1954 the celebrated Imperial Swan Egg, created from the jeweler Peter Carl Faberge. The Sandoz Collection now consists of many pieces by the legendary Russian jeweler, like the Miniature Piano, the Imperial Peacock Egg, the Youssoupoff Clock, the Golden Peacock, and naturally, the Imperial Swan Egg - all of which will likely be on display all through the exhibit.

Whilst each piece within the Sandoz Assortment boasts a number of distinctive functions, Parmigiani selected to recreate two of the pieces' mechanisms in tribute for the occasion - one particular of that is a timepiece with telescopic hands that run around the circumference of an oval-shaped dial and the 2nd an elaborate moment repeater with cathedral chimes as well as the time exhibited inside a half-moon aperture with several hours passing by - a nod to the inventiveness with the master watchmakers with the previous. On the again with the calibre, the blued steel cathedral chimes can be found in the extremely original courbe shape spherical the movement, completely noticeable by means of the sapphire crystal caseback.

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