Thank you for those links. Once upon a time I'd look at those watches and think "ok, fancy scratches" and now I think of them as an apex of math, machine and hu

Thank you for those links. Once upon a time I'd look at those watches and think "ok, fancy scratches" and now I think of them as an apex of math, machine and human touch. Reading about Breguet's work is amazing--all the things he invented and working through and escaping the French Revolution. https://museum.seiko.co.jp/en/knowledge/inventors_03/ https://museum.seiko.co.jp/en/knowledge/inventors_03/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham-Louis_Breguet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham-Louis_Breguet