The canvas —the large surface of the mainplate, which also serves as the dial— was always there to be taken advantage of. The LM Split Escapement offers a huge surface where an ingenious artist such as Jaquet can reproduce a number of ideas. As mentioned, the inspiration came from Jules Verne himself and his fantastic works.

During the documentation phase prior to the conception of the series, Jaquet read a number of Jules Verne books by the 19th century French author. To imagine the illustrations that would become the works, Jaquet sketched his own original ideas on stencils of the dials depicting important scenes of each story, sometimes combining several scenes in a single dial as a narrative graphic tapestry. In a way, Jaquet might have lovingly reimagined some of Verne’s passages.

The eight Jules Verne stories illustrated in this limited-edition LM SE series are Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, From the Earth to the Moon, Around the World in Eighty Days, Five Weeks in a Balloon, The Adventures of Captain Hatteras, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Michael Strogoff,Patek Philippe Replica and Robur the Conqueror. All of Jaquet’s illustrations are original, that is, the artist created the illustrations based on his experience in reading the works, with not one original scene lifted from Verne’s works.