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Kevenhüller
The gifted and versatile Kevenhüller was born
in the seventeen-seventies, in Germany. Being
the son of a feudal count, he could have lived
in a great castle and ridden by the Emperor’s side,
had he so wished. But that was not to his taste.
He would have liked to attach windmill-wings
to the highest tower of his father’s castle, to convert
the Armorial Hall into a smithy and the Hall of
Dames into a watch-making establishment, and to
fill the castle with whirring wheels and working
levers. But as such things were not to be thought
of, he renounced all the grandeur and apprenticed
himself to a watch-maker. He learned all there was
to learn about cog-wheels, springs, and pendulums.
Moreover, he learned to make sun-dials, star-dials,
clocks with singing canaries and piping shepherds,
chimes whose marvellous mechanism would fill a
church tower, and watch-works so small they could
be set in a locket.
On receiving his certificate of mastership, he
shouldered his scrip and, with staff in hand,
wandered from place to place to study everything that
went on wheels and rollers. Kevenhüller was no
ordinary watch craftsman; his desire was to be a
great inventor and world-benefactor.
When he had journeyed thus through many
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