Reuge is well-known for a long history of mechanical singing birds where the tradition calls for the use of real bird feathers. However, here the request was clearly to create something very metal, unique and special.
Nicolas Court, a long time close friend and ally from Sainte-Croix has taken up the challenge to create with Reuge a completely new mechanical structure - much heavier and much bigger and consequently more difficult to move.
Reuge choose to replicate a Chiff-Chaff - a bird common in the country of his customer - and created 15 mechanical automatons. Each one is made of 500 individually made pieces. The entire piece of art is afterwards gold plated in 24 carat.
All 15 pieces have been delivered and its owner will give them to his close friends as a special gift. A gift which will become a permanent memory of the relationship.
