For the past 20 years, the House of Daniel Roth has been synonymous with excellence and creativity, crafting complicated watches and exceptional creations blending traditional know-how and extreme technical expertise – two values deeply appreciated by connoisseurs the world over. Constantly in search of fresh challenges, Daniel Roth has now risen to a sizeable one by creating a twofold emotional feat named Il Giocatore Veneziano.

Automatons, a long-established tradition
Complex mechanical constructions generally representing a person or an animal in motion, the first automata date back to the Ming dynasty. Automaton timepieces appeared in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. During the period extending from 1860 to 1910 (considered the golden age of automata), many small specialised workshops sprung up in Paris and in the Swiss Jura, regularly exporting their precious mechanisms throughout the world.

Daniel Roth Il Giocatore Veneziano

An emotion-based concept
This particular project stems from an encounter between Gerald Roden, CEO of Daniel Roth, and the internationally famous automaton-maker François Junod. In harmony with the grand horological traditions and the remarkable style of 17th century pocket-watches, which illustrated scenes from mythology and from daily life, they jointly imagined a set to be produced in extremely limited numbers and of which each would be truly unique: an automaton equipped with an independent table clock, and an independent automaton wristwatch with a minute repeater mechanism.

You can buy watches from Daniel Roth at

• Ebay.com snd
• TheWatchery.com

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