Wound Up

The Franck Muller Vanguard 7 Days power Reserve Skeleton will keep on ticking, even if you neglect it for a week

- Ashok Soman

Watch making is about the long game and this year, at the Geneva presentations, we see more and more watchmakers address longevity in both the way the watches look and feel and, perhaps most importantly, how long they run. one of the biggest draws for people as they take their first steps into the world of high-end watchmaking is the fact that there are no electronics here.

The question of how a watch keeps working without a battery often motivates people to look beneath the dial. This is certainly true of everyone who works at this magazine! More broadly speaking, given that everything in our lives is powered by something – fossil fuel in most cases – the idea that something could function on nothing more than kinetic energy is fascinating.