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Struthers writes that the story of 18th-century horology, "has two very different sides. On the one hand, you have the glamorous golden age of horological advances, of link marine chronometers, of watches crafted by some of the most highly educated scientists in society. But you also have a murky underbelly of fakes link and forgeries that, link in my view, is no less interesting or important." Struthers' willingness to acknowledge dichotomies like this set her history apart.

Daniel registered Maurice de Mauriac in 1997. After a link career in banking that had taken him to link New York he returned to Switzerland and established his company in Zurich finding its name link in his love of alliteration and the names of the 16th-century French philosopher Michel de Montaigne and Nobel Prize-winning French novelist François Mauriac.