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For one Swiss artisan, creating a sapphire-covered, tuneful automaton for the French jewelry house Van Cleef & Arpels was a yearslong process. After being bejeweled at the Van Cleef & Arpels atelier ...

The art of building purely mechanical automatons has dramatically declined with the arrival of electronics over the past century, but there are still a few craftsmen who keep the art form alive.

Junod’s atelier is in the Jura Mountain village of Sainte-Croix, close to the Swiss-French border. It has been a centre of watchmaking and its associated arts for more than three centuries. But today ...

In partnership with GemGenève, the Museum of Art and History (MAH) is organizing an off-site exhibition featuring exceptional automata, musical, and other objets d’art from its collection.

SAINTE-CROIX, Switzerland (Reuters) - Don't let the retro look of the mechanical men built by Swiss artisan Francois Junod deceive you -- they fascinate tech fans from Silicon Valley to Asia and will ...

In his snow-bound workshop, Swiss master Francois Junod’s moving mechanical artworks whir into action: birds whistle, historical luminaries write poetry – traditional craftsmanship newly recognised as ...

Swiss artisan Francois Junod works on the restoration of a music box in his workshop. The latest of Junod's time-consuming projects is an 80 cm wind-up Leonardo da Vinci figure .Credit:DENIS BALIBOUSE ...

Don't let the retro look of the mechanical men built by Swiss artisan Francois Junod deceive you -- they fascinate tech fans from Silicon Valley to Asia and will no doubt gain broader popularity after ...

Heads used for the molding of parts of moving mechanical artworks at the workshop of Swiss master Francois Junod in Sainte-Croix Photo: AFP Francois Junod works on a moving mechanical artwork in his ...