The Century Inheritance of Ancient Traditional Painted Enamel Art

More than 400 years ago, Europeans, the birthplace of Geneva, began using enamel on watches and derived micro-painted enamel. Micro-painted enamel is an outstanding representative of the Western enamel process, is considered to be the three most enamel (the other two is cloisonné enamel, filled with enamel) the most difficult one.

Micro-painted enamel ancient tradition of this craft from the mid-15th century Europe Belgium, France, Netherlands, the Flanders region to explore the source. At the end of the 15th century, the Limoju in the central and western part of France developed into a micro-painted enamel based on its production of enamelled crafts. Initially, artifacts of religious themes were made and later gradually made into decorative handicrafts. By the mid-16th century until the early 17th century, the micro-painted enamel technique had gradually matured in Geneva for the production of watches and clocks.

Due to the time-consuming and laborious process of making a micro-painted enamel surface and the increasing popularity of the pocket watch as the watch rises, the once flourishing micro-painted enamel art was in its turn of the twentieth century and it was difficult to master this art heritage. Nowadays, there are a handful of watch brands that can produce micro-painted enamels in the Swiss watchmaking industry, which makes the micro-painted enamel painting art, one of the seven major watchmaking technologies in Geneva, even more expensive.

As one of Jacquelo's secret old traditions, it has nearly 300 years of history. Has been known to the Great Bright Enamel craft world, into the 21st century, Jacques Drogo committed to the micro-painted enamel enamel craft of the Western representatives to carry forward, so that the founder of the watchmaking tradition created by the existing watch series In the continuation of heritage.

Micro-painted enamel process requires the table top shell covered with a layer of anti-deformation enamel glaze, the firing process in order to make the case bottom shell high temperature, then several layers of white enamel on the metal plate, and then began to draw. Enamel master using a single brush to fine brush strokes of several layers of color surface glaze, draw a beautiful pattern. Color mixing is the biggest learning point at this time. If the color mixing is excessive, the pattern after the sintering will be vague and vandalized. Therefore, when the part is painted, it will be sintered first, then the next part will be painted, and then sintered, the work must be repeated to complete the work. The last process is a few layers of colorless and transparent glaze, enhance the sense of three-dimensional pattern. Sometimes the micro-painted enamel should be repeatedly sintered dozens of times, if the middle of a burn (such as cracking, color mixing failure, etc.) will destroy this work. So micro-painted enamel is very precious.

JACQUELO Art Workshop watch masters know how to deploy the powder thickness, how to master the heat, how can burn out a unique gloss and texture of the dial. Dials made with this technology, the quality of the same permanent, enamel bright and beautiful, can maintain the same for thousands of years, time flies can still be timeless. Each Jaédé Droz micro-painted enamel dial is hand-crafted, cumbersome and requires extremely sophisticated processes that take approximately 40 hours under the microscope to achieve, and it is for this reason that the micro-painted enamel Craft is only used in a few watch models, thus creating a unique and classic hand-drawn watches, eternal.

JACQUELA every one of the micro-painted enameled watches are all originality, unique and stunning masterpiece. Each dial is uphold the quality requirements of the brand excellence, composed of five layers of enamel, after more than a week of hand-made, and about 20 times the fire process to achieve the ultimate effect. White dial like the canvas is unfolded, color lines are scribbling between the square outline, exudes artistic fragrance, timeless. Whether on the dial, animals or portraits, portraits are clear and elegant mood, strokes delicate, a stroke, a detailed outline of the theme animal's most delicate muscle texture, feathers and fur patterns, and so vivid flying posture, and the background Landscape tranquility and graceful, each other; the theme of the flow of people, look forward to health, clothing texture clear, elegant texture, writers, artists, musicians intoxicated creation demeanor vividly portrayed. This is a gorgeous enamel jacket, wrapped in the watch body, the wrist watch shows the sensibility and romance of the arts.

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Every piece of Jacques Drouot works like a work of art at first sight, the brand's legendary history of nearly 300 years, are carefully depicted in the square between, and are all the world's limited to 88, 8 or even 1 manufacturing, but also So that each piece of micro-painted enameled watches as rare treasures, only a handful of noble people to be included in the arm.

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In order to further extend to everyone who loves luxury watch fans, collectors and connoisseurs to show Jacques Droe's unique micro-painted enamel process, a few days ago, Jacques Droupe in Shanghai held a special "Jacques Diro art workshop experience" activities. Mr. Le Ngoc Thanh, a Jacquelo enamel artist from afar, invited guests to perform the enamel micro-painting process and invited guests to experience the dial. Let our guests experience Jarkotlow's untiring efforts on the ultimate pursuit of "beauty".

For nearly three centuries, Jaquet Droz has engraved time with exquisite design, superb craftsmanship and unlimited creativity. Throughout the brand history of Jacques Drouot, each watch is born in excellence and poetic. Jacquet is now based on the field of advanced watchmaking, with superb watchmaking technology to create unique luxury watches, continue to carry forward the pursuit of perfection and innovation dedication to convey the core values ​​of emotion and poetic imagination, is committed to the " Beauty "and" pleasure "to pass through the watch passed to you, Qingli interpretation of the brand heritage of watch culture for hundreds of years.

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