Aug 5, 2024; Paris, France; Jordan Chiles of the United States celebrates her bronze medal on the floor exercise on day three of the gymnastics event finals during the Paris 2024 Olympic Summer Games. Mandatory Credit: Jack Gruber-USA TODAY Sports USA Gymnastics will appeal to the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland after the Court of…
Many of the world’s most inventive, expensive and best-known watches are made in factories in Switzerland, where the view that watchmakers see when they raise their eyes from their workbenches is likely to be cows grazing on the slopes of snow-capped mountains. It’s the Vallée de Joux, home to factories or offices for Audemars Piguet,…
In the almost five decades that Bernhard Lederer has been working with timepieces — making and maintaining clocks and watches with complications such as chronographs and tourbillons — one component has been his obsession: the escapement. It is the part of a mechanical timepiece that regulates the gears so the watch runs and keeps time…
