Company Overview - Ja Lutra was founded in 1833 when Antoine Lutra turned his family barn into a watchmaking studio [1] - The company's watchmaking process is segmented, with each employee specializing in one of 180 crafts [1] Product & Craftsmanship - The company is known for the Reverso model, originally designed for polo players [2] - The Reverso watch features a flip face to protect it during competition [2] - The company employs artisans who reproduce masterpiece paintings on the back of watches [2] - The company pioneers complications in watchmaking, such as the minute repeater and perpetual calendar [3] - The perpetual calendar complication accounts for leap years and is precise until the year 2000 [3] - The company's timepieces are entirely mechanical, with no electronic components [4] - Some timepieces can be worth 1500000 dollars and take over a year to assemble [4]

Industry Overview - Valley Deju is a global manufacturing hub for watchmaking since the 17th century [1][2] - Swiss mechanical watches are now considered fine art pieces and appreciating assets [5] Key Players - Philippe Dufour is a revered watchmaker known for meticulously crafting watches [2][4] - Dufour's watches are priced in the hundreds of thousands of dollars and are custom-ordered [4] Production & Craftsmanship - It took Dufour over two years to make his first watch [3] - It takes Dufour approximately one year (2,000 hours) to make a watch now [3] - Dufour launched the Simplicity model in 2000, which contains 153 individual components [5]

Time flies and waits for no one and once lost is never found. Yet still we try to keep time and measure it. Let the French, Germans, and British fight over who invented the wearable clock or watch in the 1500s.This we know. It's the Swiss who refined the art, crafting the world's most intricate and expensive time pieces. This though is a curious interval for Swiss watches.those mechanical wonders running not on batteries but on springs and gears. For one, you hardly need wrist candy to tell time. You can ju ...