Clockwork-powered automatons(see previous) were quite the rage in the late 18th Century, Jaquet Droz, both the man and the house, were quite famous for them. But fashions change and with the exception of a brief revival in the house of Faberge, they've not been made in the 200 years since. All of that has started to change in the last five years, JD commissioned a fully-functioning Time Writer (patterned on the Writer, one of the three immensely complex Android-style automata made by their namesake), and now Raul Pagés has started his own brand dedicated to them.
His first product is more along the lines of Faberge, a small tortoise which, when wound with a key, walks across a table, craning its neck from side to side. Each one will be unique, the first one has a 18kt white gold shell with blue enamel and diamonds inset as toenails.
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