SAINTE-CROIX (REUTERS).- Don’t let the retro look of the mechanical men built by Swiss artisan Francois Junod deceive you — they fascinate tech fans from Silicon Valley to Asia and will no doubt gain broader popularity after this week’s launch of Martin Scorsese’s film “Hugo” about a secret hidden in an automaton. The latest of Junod’s time-consuming projects is an 80 cm wind-up Leonardo da Vinci figure that will be able to do intricate drawings and write mirror-inverted texts in Latin. “I have been working on the sculpture for ten years and on the mechanism for six years. I do not have a buyer yet so I can take my time,” said Junod, surrounded by a mishmash of tools, machines and sketches in his workshop in the village of Sainte-Croix perched high up in the Swiss Jura mountains. His most complicated creation so far, an Alexander Pushkin animated by a complex mechanism enabling it to write down 1,458 different poems,