Once assembled, the watches move to the more cybernetic second floor, dedicated to testing, and boasting 46 tons of equipment. Up here, machines work around the clock. Intelligent roaming robots, nicknamed Wall-E and EVE, after Pixar’s automatons, deliver watches to various testing stations. As the wheeled duo silently race around the floor, trays of watches...
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Inside the Cartier watch laboratory hidden in a Swiss farmhouse
‘We always approach watchmaking through the eyes of a jeweller,’ says Drici. ‘We don’t see a case with a dial, but rather a complete object where the case and dial merge.’ That said, these miniature artworks have a purpose – to tell the time accurately – and the additional space that a stone-set dial needs...