There are certain moments in what I loosely describe as my “professional” life that stick in the mind. November 5, 2018, is one of them.
I was serving on the jury of the Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève, the annual awards ceremony that we in the watch world call “the horological Oscars.” The jury was meeting in the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, a splendid Beaux-Arts building in Geneva’s Old Town overlooking the lake. The meeting itself was not particularly dissimilar from ones before or since. But it has lodged in my memory as my first physical encounter with the Chronomètre Contemporain, made by Rexhep Rexhepi.
