That is a beautiful job of restoration, and the miniaturization is
impressive (though I suppose it's a less-than-perfected speed control
that makes it tough to figure out the rhythm of whatever tune that is).

Having said that, there's something in my radical semi-anarchistic soul
that calls upon me to "storm the palaces" of the nobility.  That thing
must have cost a pile of golden ducats to design and build while the
Swiss peasantry shivered in their mountain cottages.

I imagine that that sort of thing occasionally crosses the minds of
modern restorers...  To the barricades!  Storm the palaces!

Mark Kinsler