How Japan’s Thomas Edison Built the Nation’s Most Complicated Clock

Tanaka Hisashige was a genius of epic proportions, perhaps Japan’s greater inventor ever. He built the country’s first steam locomotive, steamship, and telegraph, but is best known as the founder of electronics giant Toshiba Corporation. Often cited as the Thomas Edison of Japan, Tanaka was a remarkable figure whose career spanned a crucial era in Japanese history – […]

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Sound Investments: The Genius of Patek Philippe Minute Repeaters 1.

When the little known Patek, Czapek & Cie first founded the now eponymous Patek Philippe in 1839, it was with scant knowledge that their humble maison on Quai de Bergues, Geneva would become a purveyor of high horology. After all, the year of their founding was likely reminiscent of our own witnessing of the first iPhones; we had taken…

8 years ago