In Paris, a Kind of Watch Repair Cooperative

Three watchmakers who met as students now work together to fix and renovate timepieces.

PARIS — It is not easy to find Horlogerie du Passage, a watch repair workshop nestled in Passage du Chantier, one of the narrow stone-covered alleys found throughout the city’s Right Bank.

Blink while you’re walking along Rue du Faubourg St.-Antoine, a busy road in the 12th Arrondissement, and you might miss the entrance to the passage, which dates to 1842. But once you make the turn, the atelier is right there.

It is a single room — 15 square meters, or slightly more than 160 square feet — filled with three workstations, machinery ranging from a polishing

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