Based in Besançon, the capital of the French watchmaking, John-Mikaël Flaux is an independent watchmaker and a mechanical art creator. 

He aims to revisit the world of  watchmaking and automatons by giving it a more poetic and extravagant dimension:  "La Guêpe" (mechanism in the shape of a wasp), the "Car Clock" (clock in racingautomobile form ),  the automaton "the Duel" (a fight between 2 mechanical fencers).