The latest from Max Büsser and his friends brings a hypermodern take on midcentury modern. Miniaturizing George Nelson's ball clock aesthetic, flanked by a thermometer and power reserve indications, along with a novel, transparent crown requiring 8 gaskets to maintain the timepiece's water resistance rating of 20m. To say that the crown is oversized would be an understatement.

Notably, unlike pretty much any other thermometer ever integrated into a watch, the elevated architecture of HM11's case frees the thermometer to read the ambient temperature relatively accurately, essentially uninfluenced by the wearer's body temperature.

While Nelson's name is the one emblazoned on the caseback of each authentic ball clock, no one knows for certain who actually catalyzed the design. In Nelson's own words, recorded by his biographer, Stanley Abercrombie, the design is presumed to have initially been conceived by Isamu Noguchi over drinks with Nelson and Buckminster Fuller one evening in 1947.