Few home-made timepieces though have come as near to wristwatch Nirvana as the cuckoo clock wristwatch from [Kiyotaka Akasaka], which we would venture to name as having won wristwatches.

In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, 500 years of democracy and peace, and all they produced was the cuckoo clock. “That wasn’t my father’s line,” says Bourget. “Orson Welles put ...