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The tale of one man's obsession to create the ultimate time piece, a watch in perfect harmony with the irregularities of the Earth's orbit. It is also the story of a marriage doomed to be tragically cut short.
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Watchmaker Robert Garrett's wife has died from a slow disease which destroyed the mind he loved before it destroyed her body. Now he will honour her by constructing a fitting memorial: a perfectly accurate timepiece. Can such a device ever exist?
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