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Watch Manufacture in Switzerland

The Saturday Magazine, London

1842, 6 pages, no ill

This article, published in two parts, provides a contemporary description of Swiss watchmaking and the smuggling of watches from Switzerland into France.

The section on smuggling watches using dogs is very interesting.

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