The illusion of time

The digital age that threatened to kill the mechanical watch business instead brought it new life with brothers Josh (left) and Kris Bonifas using their smartphones to keep in touch with the market at all hours of the day ¿ and night too, when servicing clients from around the globe.

Technology gives us more time, and less.

WITH radio signals controlling her solar wristwatch, a Berkeley, California physicist times her life to the second whenever she’s in her native Munich in Germany, delighting when she walks out onto the platform just as the train arrives.