My interest in mechanics is concerned... it started so early in my life that I was able early on to make comparisons in quality of workmanship and design and style and it... I think it's obvious that mechanics came quite naturally to me. I didn't have to learn about them, I could just sense immediately what was required. I never had any difficulty in learning about mechanical things. I mean a quick glance at a mechanical device and I could go away and make the whole thing from first principles. So that was very lucky for me and enormously helpful and through long association with mechanics, you know, one learns to appreciate the elegance of mechanical things, especially if you study the horology of the 18th and 19th centuries. All the components are very elegant and graceful and obviously made by artists... people who had a feeling for the natural progression of development. This makes them very elegant to look at. Today we find watches almost always have a crystal back, so you can see the mechanism, but unfortunately the mechanisms are not very well finished, so it seems a pity that the most beautiful mechanisms are contained within closed backs on old watches.