Labours of Time

I find myself thinking about time a whole lot and the mechanical watch. It's wonderful how such an object, at an intersection of craft and engineering, quantifies and solidifies our concept of time, which is debatibly an illusion. The movie Hugo got me romanticizing about it when it associated clocks to trains and trainstations, my other current obsessions.

Hugo is an orphaned boy living in the great clock at Gare Montparnasse in Paris. The story is nothing short of magical in all the best ways, weaving fact and fiction about the beginnings of cinema and its illusions.

Watch (haha) this National Film Board documentary called À l'abri du temps by Stéphane Drolet and discover one Canadian watch-maker's (and his family's) venture to further his craft in Switzerland.

Also, a brief overview of clock-making by How It's Made. Gotta love that show.