This is an edition of the newsletter Box + Papers, Cam Wolf’s weekly deep dive into the world of watches. It’s currently being manned by Jeremy Freed, watch writer extraordinaire, while Cam is on parental leave. Sign up here.
When we talk about watchmaking craft, we’re usually talking about the white-coated specialists who toil away assembling movements and engraving guilloché dials in Swiss alpine ateliers. Their miraculous creations are both timekeeping devices and works of art,…

