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The Clockmaker's Patience
A conversation with a horologist who measures her work in decades and her tolerances in microns.
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Beatrix Holt has spent eleven months on a single escapement. She does not consider this slow. ‘The clock will run for three hundred years,’ she says. ‘Eleven months is nothing it will ever notice.’
There is a temptation, writing about this, to reach immediately for the lesson. We have tried to resist it. The particulars are more interesting than anything they might be made to mean.
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