"Sapere
aude" ... Dare to know, wrote Emanuel Kant in
1784. This exhortation
sums up to perfection the intellectual ferment and universal
curiosity of a century that affirmed the primacy of
the mind.
Abraham
Luis Breguet (1747 - 1823)
"Man
knows no port; time has
no shore, it flows
and we merely pass".
Jean
Marc Vacheron
Watchmaker
Francoise
Constantin
Gentleman
Merchant
Georges
Leschot
Inventor
"Instruments
I spy here, you seem to mock me, with all your
wheels, your teeth,
your bows and your cylinders. I was before the
door and you should
have served as key."
