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When I visited Rexhep Rexhepi, the renowned watchmaking phenom, at his Geneva workshop in the summer of 2024, the obsession had already started. His workbench was scattered with vintage chronographs, and his mind was whirring with ideas for how he might innovate on the age-old stopwatch complication. “I would be very interested now to…

