A French poet’s take on the timelessness of watchmaking
When looking at the history of French watchmaking, we learn that Franche-Comté, a region located in eastern France and bordering Switzerland, had been the country’s hub of horology since the 1600s. That was until the French Protestant watchmakers, the Huguenots, were forced into exile in Switzerland. France-Comté was where all major horological inventions were born and where, today, the only and rare French manufactures remain. It is also where popular brands such as Yema and Baltic have their watches assembled and serviced. Nousseïma Baraket, therefore, grew up in an environment that lives and breathes horology. She’s also a poet, so it was only a matter of time before she would combine writing and watchmaking.
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