It does pull your mind away,” said Alison Moriarty, who now fires dials and assembles watches for her own brand.

The technique, which Jaquet-Droz used to decorate his trademark singing bird boxes and pocket watches, begins with a gold dial embellished with guilloché work. With every layer of translucent enamel, ...

People think of enamel as a type of paint – which it may once have been – but recently it is more of a descriptive term used in a general manner by many manufacturers to describe a paint that dries ...