24/07/2012
The L’Oiseleur
L’Oiseleur is a 4-foot tall automaton doll. It comes with sword, flute, a pair of singing birds, and wonderful hand embroidered in the Renaissance era clothing. As exquisite as it is, this doll plays the flute to the tune of Marche des Rois. Also, it does not use any type of electricity or any motors. It runs purely on spring driven cogs and gears.
The L’Oiseleur when translated means “The Bird Trainer”. This doll has a price tag of $6,250,000. It is probably worth this figure since it has 2,340 gilt or polished steel parts. It took over 15,000 hours to create in a Swiss workshop.
