The air is stifling hot, with a heavy, metallic smell that sticks in the throat and stings the eyes.
In his foundry with smoke-blackened walls, Alois Huguenin uses an enormous ladle to pour molten bronze at 1,250 degrees Celsius (2,282 degrees Fahrenheit) into a metal frame.
For three generations, the century-old traditional foundry in La Chaux-de-Fonds in northwestern Switzerland — the cradle of the country’s famous watchmaking industry…
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