The Persée is a luxury assembly kit that comes with a guarantee of success from the French brand Maison Alcée. By Felicia Craddock In 2020 Alcée Montfort conceived an audacious idea: a luxury clock ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The innermost workings of a mechanical timekeeper can remain a mystery even for hardened horophiles. But, for ...
The tick-tick sound comes from the movement of gears and parts inside the clock. In mechanical clocks, a part called the escapement mechanism controls this sound.