We take the reality of mechanical watches completely for granted today. It would never occur to most modern enthusiasts that less than 30 years ago it was entirely conceivable that the mechanical watch would go extinct before the end of the twentieth century. Luckily for us, some very smart people with some very bold ideas came along and reinvented what a mechanical watch could be in a big way.

There are two parts to this one, so read part one here and part two here.