The Cosmograph Daytona is equipped with self-winding link caliber 4131 (first released last year), link the movement features bridges decorated with Rolex Côtes de Geneve and a cut-out oscillating weight. Caliber 4131 enables the standard measuring of intervals of time via the chronograph function, in addition to displaying the hours, minutes and seconds. The power reserve link extends to approximately 72 hours.

When I notice other clocks on my travels through Japan, they're also branded Seikosha, which began in 1892 as a clockmaker and made its first 8-day clock that year. All over Japan, their frenetic little pendulums mete out the time with the urgency of a hummingbird's wings. The day just fond bleu effect is paradoxically reassuring. It winds up making time seem to stand still.