Prior to the Industrial Revolution, royal patronage was the chief force behind the watch trade's technical and aesthetic innovation, and royal families have ever since been a reliable source of income for the industry..
The National Watch & Clock Museum in Columbia, Pa., lays out, with an overwhelming accumulation of examples, a history of the measuring of time and the attempt to chronicle life.
An American fashion designer who has been practicing traditional French haute couture and a French interior designer working in the United States create a weekend refuge in the California desert