I have mixed feelings about this - I would rather see Le Locle as a vital
manufacturing center (and BTW, real working factories are rarely much to
look at) than as a museum.  I once went down into a former coal mine, where
they had retired mine workers giving tours to tourists  and it was a little
heartbreaking that this was a museum of a mine and not a real mine.
Likewise, Venice at this point is no longer a real living city but a giant
tourist trap.  In China today, they don't have factory museums, they have
actual factories. I realize that Switz. does also, but this is a step in the
wrong direction IMHO - too much of Europe is being preserved in amber.