The "augmented hand", the future of the craftsman

The Good Life, Fabrice Eschmann, 12 juillet 2019

New technologies are increasingly able to replace the virtuoso gesture of the craftsman. Rather than being erased, the latter must use them to increase its capacities, pleads Inès Hamaguchi, enameller for Haute Horlogerie.

This Swiss woman married to a Japanese watchmaker has imagined what the workshop of the future will be like: a place full of high-tech instruments intended to "increase the hand", so as to allow the craftsman to go beyond their natural capacities, to exceed their limits, while preserving their dexterity and their gestural acuity.

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