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In the late 1980s, Reebok’s Pump sneaker turned a simple press into a cult gesture; H. Moser & Cie. now uses that same orange button to wind a watch.

H. Moser & Cie. has stripped its perpetual calendar back to raw metal: a tantalum case, and a dial machined from the same metal with no lacquer at all.

H. Moser & Cie. believes complications should be seen as much as heard, so its newest minute repeater moves the hammers and chimes onto the dial itself.

Chronoswiss has turned to the Roaring Twenties, and the geometry of Art Deco, for a new edition of the Delphis, one of its best-known complications since 1996.

In the Chronoswiss Atelier in Lucerne, an engraver spends weeks cutting Chronos, the ancient Greek god of time, into a solid gold case, one stroke at a time.

Czapek developed its Cosmic Blue for the first Antarctique Tourbillon, then chose to wait, keeping it to unite three Antarctique models in titanium.

Among the one-of-a-kind watches URWERK keeps in its workshop is one that slid time across a 180-degree arc beneath a diamond-studded sky.

At the Chronoswiss Atelier in Lucerne, tiny stars of gold are cut and set by hand under magnification, then sealed beneath layers of fired blue enamel for the watch’s dial.

Chronoswiss designed its new GMT for people who live between time zones, taking the idea from an earlier watch of its own, the Tora.

Master watchmaker Claude Greisler believes materials must carry meaning beyond aesthetics, and with a local stone artisan, Armin Strom has cut a dial from natural ruby.

H. Moser & Cie. made one watch for the drivers of the BWT Alpine Formula One Team and one for its mechanics; now both take on pink, from the team’s second livery.

Kanazawa artist Terumasa Ikeda saw a planetary system in the TYPE 9’s orbital display, and built a dial of urushi lacquer and mother-of-pearl around it.