In the rugged Jura mountains, between Geneva and Basel, the finest, most expensive and most soughtafter watches in the world are made. A Swiss success story. The change of weather marks your arrival in a glittering world.

A Brief History of Standard Time

The inventor of world standard time, Sandford Fleming, was born in 1827 in the manufacturing centre of Kirkcaldy in Scotland. After six years of formal schooling and another six years of apprenticeship in a local land surveyor's office, he emigrated to Canada in 1845 at the age of eighteen. Fleming settled initially in the Ontario village of Peterborough, where he drew and sold local maps on his own lithography stones.

The Tourbillon - the sumptuous pinnacle of the watchmaker's craft - is the hit of the season, and its engineers are the stars of the show. SAVOUR presents the master craftsmen and their delicate filigree-worked watch movements.

If it wasn't for the railway line that connects Zurich to Geneva, with a roaring express train passing every few minutes, it would be the perfect paradise.

In the rugged Jura mountains, between Geneva and Basel, the finest, most expensive and most soughtafter watches in the world are made. A Swiss success story.

The change of weather marks your arrival in a glittering world.

If the highlight of this year's watch fairs in Geneva and Basel was a timepiece with 16 displays, costing 1.2 million Euros, then nothing seems impossible any more.

"Millionaires disguise themselves with jeans and a jacket"