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The Anatomy of a Watch Movement: A Visual Tour of What's Ticking on Your Wrist

Pop the back off a fine mechanical watch and you are looking at a self-contained universe. A few hundred parts, some no thicker than a human hair, all conspiring to track the passage of time withi...

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Guilloché Dials: The Lost Art Beneath the Crystal

On a quiet afternoon in a Swiss workshop, a craftsman leans into a machine that looks like something out of a steampunk novel. Cast-iron levers, brass cams, a hand crank. He turns it slowly — ha...