April 18th, 2009
Vallée de Joux
A brief intruduction of the Mater Minute Repeater of the Vallée de Joux seires.
In 2009, the artists of the Manufacture wished to present an exceptional series illustrating a traditional enamel technique ? grand feu ? on a famous timepiece in the Jaeger-LeCoultre collection: the Master Minute Repeater.
The Manufacture has chosen to treat the dial of the Master Minute Repeater to a stunning interpretation in the form of enameled miniatures of four famous historical paintings depicting Venus, the goddess of love. These works stem from a variety of sources of inspiration encompassing the Italian Renaissance, the Spanish school of art and French classicism, as embodied by the famous examples selected by the master-enamellers of the Manufacture: ?The Birth of Venus’ by Botticelli; ?The Venus of Urbino’ by Titian; the ?Rokeby Venus’ by Velasquez and ?Venus Anadyomène’ by Ingres.