It’s fitting that the European renaissance of automata, or kinetic sculptures designed to mimic human movement, began with a clockmaker—like their timekeeping counterparts, automata operate on cue, ...

The work of visual designer (and Resident Wizard at the Museum of Outdoor Arts) Lonnie Hanzon is often fueled by the ephemeral, lost in time and tinged with the brown edge of a daguerreotype. And that ...

A watch created by Abraham-Louis Breguet that once belonged to King George III has sold for over twice the low-end estimate of $895,000, after four bidders helped set an auction record for a ...

MUSICAL MACHINES AND LIVING DOLLS : THE MURTOGH D GUINNESS COLLECTION OF MECHANICAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS AND AUTOMATA ELLEN M SNYDERGRENIER FOREWORD BY STEVEN MILLER ESSAY BY ARTHUR WJG ORDHUME ...

Throughout history, innovators have strived to create automata, or robots as we now know them, to augment labor intensive and dangerous human jobs. As far back as 322 BC, Aristotle predicted that ...

Many premium watch companies have métiers d’art ateliers, where exceptional artisanal pieces are done by hand. But few (if any) are able to create these works of art on the astonishing scale of Jaquet ...