Oscillon and the Limits of Watchmaking
Inside the workshop where Swiss watchmaking keeps its oldest promises
The lathe is older than anyone in the room. It sits in a corner of the workshop in Buchs, in the canton of Aargau, its cast-iron frame worn smooth in places where hands have guided metal for the better part of a century. Cyrano Devanthey runs his fingers along its bed, checking for the thousandth time that everything is true, that the machine will do wh…
