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...That the European market is, well, turning the clock back, is further illustrated by a training school high in the Swiss Jura. Between 1970 and 1987 the Swiss watch industry, devastated by digital timekeeping, shed two-thirds of its workforce. But at this school, students spend two years learning what made the Swiss famous: mechanical watchmaking. "By the end they will have mastered the history of watchmaking from the 15th century to the present day," says one of the teachers. "Why try to compete with the Japanese when our specialty is high-quality mechanical watchmaking?" If further proof...
...Behind him, five first-year students are hunched over their benches with magnifying monocles screwed into their eyes. Antique clocks and watches in varying states of disassembly lie about, their components carefully stored in multirecessed trays. "The idea here is restoring a clock or watch to its original state," Lindwerlin explains, "which means they're tackling the problem of missing components." His students are trained to research where a timepiece was made and what sort of tools were used there at that time. They use computer-assisted design programs to reconceptualize missing parts and a separate workshop with lathes...
...ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK: Simon Winchester goes for arcane subjects. His bestselling "The Professor and the Madman" told the story behind the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary. His new book, "The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology" (HarperCollins; August 14) tells the story of William Smith, "whose lifelong obsession with fossils and the strata of rock formations proved to be the foundation for the science of geology." Kirkus adored it, giving it a starred review. "A fluid, fascinating, emotional story of an unlikely genius who created a science." HarperCollins is really behind...
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...hangout for fans and musicians. In the 1930s Gabler began recording such artists as Billie Holiday and Peggy Lee and paired Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald for the first time on vinyl. In 1954 Gabler produced that seminal rock-'n'-roll tune, Bill Haley's Rock Around the Clock...