The Fascinating Story of Zenith: The Man Who Saved Watchmaking Behind a False Wall
Horology ArchiveIn 1975, a Swiss watchmaker secretly defied his American bosses, hauled 150 hydraulic presses up a narrow attic staircase one at a time, and sealed them behind a false wall. He told no one. Not his wife. Not his colleagues. If he'd been caught, he would have been fired and the machines destroyed fo