One of my favorite things about working on this, our annual Watches & Jewelry issue, is all the ways in which it invites us to think about time. Time is something we can measure but never fully comprehend—like its twin, space, it stretches out endlessly, forever, with the relentless indifference of a runaway boulder: We can watch it roll by, but we can never budge it from its course.
It’s human endeavor that gives depth and contour to time, a point recently driven home…