Saturday, February 29, 2020

The Expensive Watch

During a trip to the Geneva factory of Vacheron Constantin, whose watches often cost in the low five figures, Mr. Mayer met a worker who specialized in making minuscule screws that go inside a watch. The worker finished 1 1/2 screws by hand a day.

- From "Time is (a lot of) Money" by Jacob Gallagher in The Wall Street Journal, February 29 - March 1, 2020, p. D2.

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