This is why I've always liked how Chronometrie Ferdinand Berthoud approaches watchmaking. Ferdinand Berthoud (1727-1807) was a member of the first generation of watchmakers capable of producing true marine chronometers and was a scientist-artisan, with papers published by the Royal Academies
link of Science in both Britain and France – the two countries may have been bitter enemies
link during the Napoleonic
link Wars, but science is science.