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LA Times Today: An L.A. watchmaker crafted a $70,000 timepiece. It could revolutionize the U.S. watch industry

LA Times Today: An L.A. watchmaker crafted a $70,000 timepiece. It could revolutionize the U.S. watch industry

Watch L.A. Times Today at 7 p.m. on Spectrum News 1 on Channel 1 or live stream on the Spectrum News App. Palos Verdes Peninsula and Orange County viewers can watch on Cox Systems on channel 99.

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The art of watchmaking traces back hundreds of years, but a true U.S.-made watch hasn’t been created in the last five decades.

Now, a watchmaker in Inglewood is working to bring the craft back — thanks in part to his knowledge of a historic decorative technique called guilloché.

L.A. Times reporter Daniel Miller told Lisa McRee more about this local watchmaker: Joshua Shapiro of J.N. Shapiro Watches.

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