The Watchmaker

Time cannot be owned. But what if someone tried? For more than two centuries, a single heartbeat has echoed through the valley of Neuchâtel the mechanical pulse of Maison Vallin, the oldest independent watch manufactory in Switzerland. Within its stone walls, every movement is measured, every breath calibrated. Until one man disturbs the rhythm. Monsieur L., a master watchmaker with no past and no watch of his own, is building a timepiece unlike any other, a mechanism that will not simply measure time, but bend it. What begins as a quest for perfection becomes an obsession that threatens the order he has devoted his life to preserve. When the clocks begin to falter and the factorys silence deepens into dread, Inspector Maurer is called to investigate. Among ticking gears, encrypted archives, and the ghosts of forgotten experiments, he uncovers a secret that blurs the line between science, faith, and madness. A literary thriller about obsession, precision, and the cost of perfection. Elegant, haunting, and meticulously crafted, THE WATCHMAKER is both a homage to the art of horology and a meditation on the human desire to control time itself.