My Global Hustle

Despite the fact that computers, phones, answering machines, televisions, radios, wrinkles and girlfriends all constantly remind us of the hour, we men still prefer to check in with old Father Time via the medium of a watch – preferably one of the expensive Swiss-made variety.

There is something comforting about the knowledge that somewhere, high on an Alpine mountain, an army of nimble-fingered craftsman have worked slavishly in air-locked, dust-free rooms constructing the thousands of near-invisible components into a form of mechanical mastery.

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via Mr. Porter