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"Marie Antoinette's Watch is a wonderful reserve." - William Gibson, author of Neuromancer Across continents and into and from the hands of royalty, revolutionaries, smugglers, thieves, and the world's greatest tech engineers, was Marie Antoinette's watch, the "160" value an estimated $40 million in today's dollars. Perhaps the most popular personal technology device of the previous 200 years, the timepiece, created by the famous Abraham-Louis Breguet, is the starting point for an exciting and fluidly woven group of narratives that are, partly, forbidden love report, historical document, and law enforcement officials procedural. Marie Antoinette's Watch also deftly lays out the history of horology and the 18th Century engineering feats achieved in Paris's answer to Silicon Valley, the Ile de la Cite, that made the watch the most intricate and valued personal device of its time - something that's come back to where it started today. Inside the hands of Techcrunch's East Shoreline Editor, John Biggs, Marie Antoinette's Watch is by turns edifying and lurid, historical and utterly modern. Culminating in a heist in a Tel Aviv antiquities museum in the 1980s, Biggs says the storyplot of how one thing can convert countries, civilizations, high technology, and time itself.
