Throughout his life, Swiss engineer Jean-Léon Reutter was fascinated by the idea of a clock that could keep time for centuries without a winding mechanism or an external power source. In 1928, upon ...
MILANESE MOMENT: Time stops for no one, and especially not Jaeger-LeCoultre, which has decamped to Milan’s Salone del Mobile shortly after showing at Watches and Wonders in Geneva. While the brand’s ...
Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. In the small test room of a clock factory, while learning about how to minimise metallic elasticity for ...