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Modern luxury watches hold decades of innovation and artistic craft BY JEANNA BRYNER Queen Caroline Murat of Naples, a younger sister of Napoleon Bonaparte, is credited with wearing the world’s first wristwatch: an oval-shaped face with a silver dial, attached to a bracelet made of hair and golden threads. Presented to the queen by Swiss watchmaker Abraham-Louis Breguet in 1812, the watch (which has since been lost) would look underwhelming alongside today’s timekeeping masterpieces. As watches have become more complicated (yes, in the world of timepieces that could require a mortgage to purchase, it pays to be complicated), materials science and engineering have become ever more critical. …
摘自《科学美国人》(Scientific American)第334卷 第5期 · 2026年5月刊,Jeanna Bryner。仅引用开头一小段供了解文章,版权归原刊所有,全文请阅读原刊。