On the bench next to the Noël-Wicki team I meet Iris Gigon, who is working on a new kind of complication: a simplified, easy-to-use alarm function housed in a unisex case measuring between 39 and 41 millimeters. “I don’t know if it will work. But I am trying to make a reminder of the egg timer, where you simply turn the bezel to activate the alarm up to 60 minutes. This would be a complication for everyday use in the kitchen or for a scientist or as a reminder during workshops, sports...I want to create something that works for everybody. And it would be easier to use than the countdown function on your smartphone,” Gigon says. She is also doing a lot of research into bracelets, which led her to creating smooth, big-scaled, very elegant prototypes of unexpected origin: salmon skin, with a stabilizing middle layer of nubuck. “To use salmon is very ‘fair’; it doesn’t have the problematics of cruelties with snake or crocodile. The material is not well known today, but I think we will see a lot of salmon bracelets in a few years in the watch industry,” Gigon predicts.