Article on Watchmakers in Today's NY Times

" Big Hands on the Little Hands
By GLENN COLLINS
SECAUCUS, N.J., Sept. 23 - The little-old-watchmaker-guy stereotype is wrong
on three counts.

A lot of them aren't little, or old, or guys. In fact, because of a luxury
boom, a new generation of young horologists is receiving training in an
antiquated art. For despite the sleek, solid-state domination of the quartz
watch and the digital display, expensive and intricate mechanical watches
are back.

But very few people are qualified to repair them. ......"



Rest of the article at
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/29/nyregion/29watch.html?pagewanted=print

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Nothing that anyone here wouldn't know, but its good to see this put before
the broader public and the article is fairly accurate for something written
by someone who is not familiar with the field -very often articles in the
general press on specialist subjects get the facts totally wrong because the
reporter parachutes in for a day and leaves as clueless as he started, but
doesn't allow ignorance to get in the way of writing his "story".




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