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is made of solid brass, hand-tooled by a craftsman in 19th century France.
“They don’t make them like this any more,” Mr. Tucker laments. Now, the movements are usually stamped out of cheaper metal, and almost never polished to the high sheen of the old, hand-crafted clocks.
It’s not that they don’t work just as well, he says, it’s just that the old, hand-tooled gears and wheels are “beautiful.”
Back when clocks were handmade, he explains, the cabinetmaker who built the box bought the movement from a clockmaker who made nothing else. The name on the clock face might be the cabinetmaker or the clocksmith, but one person didn’t make both parts of the finished piece.
That Dart hasn’t changed. Mr.
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