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Mechanical watchmaking has been around for centuries, with some Swiss brands like Bovet claiming over 200 years of history.

You'd think that after hundreds of years of innovation, there wouldn't be any mountains left to climb in the field of horology. But that isn't the case.

Ever since Louis Cottier and Patek Philippe created the first examples in the 1930s, every single world-time watch has suffered from the same issue: They don't account for Daylight Saving Time, which means that throughout the year, some of the watch's cities will not display the correct time.

Bovet finally solved that problem this year.

The watch's solution is quite ingenious. Rather than utilizing a printed ring of cities like other world timers, the Récital displays its cities on rollers.

Each roller has four sides representing four different annual time systems: UTC, American DST, Europe and America Summer Time and European Winter Time.