I have to agree with the quote from Samuel Beckett... Take your best shot and roll with it ; ). I remember reading "Anatomy of an $85.00 Watch: The Swatch Automatic" by Walt Odets... hard to imagine Beckett and Odets being mentioned in the same paragraph ; ).
It took me a couple of years to find, but based on the article's conclusion: "The Swatch automatic is not a wonderful piece of craftsmanship, but it is certainly a wonderful piece of engineering" I finally located that 23 jeweled automatic in a small shop in Heidelberg, Germany. In one sense Samuel and Walt were right, why complicate a simple thing...
Casey