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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
Business
Daniel Miller

An LA watchmaker crafted a $70,000 timepiece. It could revolutionize the US watch industry

Watchmaker Joshua Shapiro gripped the machine's worn handle with his left hand and exhaled.

Standing at the helm of the 100-year-old "rose engine," he peered through a microscope at a small, square slab of German silver illuminated by a gooseneck lamp.

Shapiro turned the handle. The rose engine came alive.

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