The watch industry is ticking away in Switzerland, where masters work with pieces the size of poppyseeds to hand make timepieces that retail for hundreds of thousands of dollars.

EDITOR’S NOTE: Curio is a CNN Style series spotlighting small objects and the big ideas behind them. In an age when clocks are found in most pockets and on every screen, watchmaker Col&MacArthur’s ...

(CNN) — In an age when clocks are found in most pockets and on every screen, watchmaker Col&MacArthur’s selling point is not just time, but history itself. Known for using unconventional materials — ...