ADVERTISEMENT In a story we ran not long ago about a new watch from Ming – the 20.11 Mosaic – there was an interesting comment, to the effect that the watch represented creative watch design, not creative watchmaking. The comment got me thinking about what exactly constitutes creative watchmaking these days, and where the line is between the two. Watchmaking, to state the screamingly obvious, is the making of watches – and a watch is more than the movement. The design of the case, dial, and hands are all part of watchmaking, if you take a big-picture perspective. But what the commenter meant, as far as I can tell, is that there was nothing interesting going on in the watch from a technical perspective – that is, with the movement itself. Of course, the movement is somewhat unusual – Schwartz-Etienne's micro-rotor calibers are pretty far removed from bread-and-butter ETA or Sellita movements – and the partial openworking, and contrasting black rhodium plating and diamond-cut bevels are not business as usual, either.