Where Time Stands Still Young watchmakers are schooled in the centuries-old
ways of an industry reborn By CHRISTINE
WHITEHOUSE
ANDREAS SCHWAIGER-LOOKAT FOR TIME
LOOK IN: A student on the four-year
course in watchmaking at Le Locle Technical Training College. Techniques
like hand-polishing screw-heads until they gleam like mirrors, or
grinding axle-ends down to a 10th of a millimeter using miniature
lathes are par for the course. And the young apprentices are also
assimilating that other cardinal virtue in a watchmaker's character:
patience.
