I’m showing off a unique vintage wooden automaton that I recently found. This hand-carved figure has an amusing and surprising moving part that makes it a real conversation starter. Watch as I ...

Paul Spooner specialises in a field known as 'mechanical automata'. He makes elaborate constructions from various materials - with a strong preference for wood - as much for the joy of making them, as ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Watches news every morning. In our AI-powered age of Alexa and ChatGPT, the idea of a mechanical automaton may seem out of step with the ...