The Tissot PRX 35mm Powermatic 80, now in Ice Blue and Radiant Gold

Perhaps, if we were to stick with the original analogy, the designer is not walking an entirely new path, but rather assembling that path from pieces of paths that have been walked before. Rather than a random venture into the unknown, then, it becomes an editing exercise (almost). Instead of the previously accepted lightbulb moment, it is in fact many little lightbulbs going on at once and illuminating a room that, when illuminated correctly, appears to have always been there rather than something very new at all.