By Brent Robillard Audacity and poetry At the age of eighteen, Alexandre Beauregard once contemplated destroying one of Beethoven’s six remaining pianos—harvesting its ebony to turn into watches. “It’s an idea that still haunts me,” he says now, smiling, as if aware of the audacity and the poetry of the thought in equal measure. It is a strangely perfect entry point into Beauregard’s mind. For … Continue reading From Ville Marie to the World: The Intimate Horology of Alexandre Beauregard