Tenochtitlan on Lake Texcoco Modern Mexico City: a super metropolis of nine million people, was once a series of lakes. The Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan, was located there on a network of artificial islands. In those lakes, in countless numbers, swam the axolotl, Ambystoma mexicanum, a wholly aquatic salamander. According to≫ more
The Swiss Screw Thread In 1876 the Société des Arts de Genève formed a committee to standardize small screw threads for instruments, clocks and watches, Geneva being a center of the watch industry. The committee consisted principally of persons actually active in horological manufacturing. They began by forming an extensive≫ more
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written by: Simon de Burton No watch at auction has ever created as much media hype as a scuffed up 1968 Rolex Daytona, given as a gift to Hollywood icon Paul Newman by his wife, which achieved a world record price of $17.75 million in 2017. Arguably, that sale also≫ more
