After he graduated from the University of Michigan and served in the army, Uncle Earl got myfather a job in the engineering department at Chrysler, where he too worked for his entire career.
My guide Claudine Buehler, whose husband, father, uncle, aunt and grandfather all work or worked in the watchmaking business, explained that the buildings were laid out this way in the early 19th Century to maximize the amount of sunlight that could flood into the first-floor workshop windows.