Pierre Jaquet-Droz: How the 1774 Automata Built a 300-Year Watchmaking House
La Chaux-de-Fonds, a high valley in the Jura where winters run five months long, still keeps Pierre Jaquet-Droz’s workshop footprints in its very street names. Walk Rue Jaquet-Droz at dusk and you pass the kind of shuttered ateliers where, in…
