Live Long and Prosper: Taking the Bremont Terra Nova Jumping Hour on the Star Trek Trail

At the 2026 edition of Geneva Watch Days, Bremont introduced four new Terra Nova Jumping Hour pieces in a new 35mm size, including the one I took to space, the final frontier: the Terra Nova 35mm Jumping Hour Frosted. 

I first saw the pieces at my appointment with Bremont at Geneva Watch Days, and was immediately drawn to the frosted version, with its montre à guichet display encased in a textured 904L steel case. While I like the larger iterations of the brand's jumping hour pieces, the 40.5mm versions are a bit too big for my wrist, and even the 38mm versions seem a little large to my eye. The new 35mm versions wear very comfortably, and despite their relatively diminutive case diameter, don't look too small visually. This optical illusion is largely due to the cushion case shape, which gives the case and lugs a pleasing, solid presence on the wrist. I also found myself repeatedly running my finger along the satisfying frosted texture of the case, which is extensive, given the expanse of shimmering steel stretching across the dial area.

My gaze kept returning to the frosted version as I tried on the other new releases from Bremont, and I decided that, at least to me, it resembled a sparkly little spaceship. So when I borrowed it to take it out on the town in London, I knew exactly where to go: the Star Trek Warp Trail at the Science Museum.

The jumping hour complication is having a moment right now. Many brands have been putting out jumping hour watches in the past few years, including the Audemars Piguet Neo Frame Jumping Hour, Cartier Privé Tank à Guichets, Louis Vuitton Tambour Spin Time, De Bethune DB25 Digitale, M.A.D.Editions M.A.D.3 Vincent Calabrese, and the Fears Brunswick 40.5 Jump Hour 'Ultimus', to name only a few.

There's one brand that has really leaned into the jumping hour complication that may seem surprising at first: Bremont. Originally known primarily for its pilot's watches, the brand has introduced a number of references with jumping hour complications under its Terra Nova family over the past few years, with the first two introduced in 2025 at Watches and Wonders.

The Warp Trail wasn't a typical exhibition in the museum, which would normally be set up in one room. Created for the 60th anniversary of Star Trek, the Warp Trail placed artifacts from different series and eras in Star Trek's history throughout the museum, essentially taking visitors on a tour of a good portion of its galleries. Even though I am a regular visitor to the Science Museum, I usually stick to the Clockmakers’ Museum, for obvious obsessive watch and clock nerd reasons. This trek around the museum was a pleasant treat as I made my way through the various floors, searching for each Trek artifact.

I wandered to many corners of the Science Museum, along with fellow explorers seeking out new worlds and new civilizations. We started at the model of the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 at the museum entrance and continued to a display of power sources for starships, such as a photon collector used by Uhura and Chekov in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home and a spore canister used to inject fungal spores into the engine core in Star Trek: Discovery, in the Energy Hall, also on the ground level.

The Warp Trail then guided our intrepid crew to the Flight section on level 3 to see the clothes that Zefram Cochrane was wearing when he made humanity's first contact with the Vulcans, and onward to the Information Age section on level 2 to see various communications technologies used in Star Trek episodes and films. Next up, we headed downstairs to level 1 to the Engineers section to see artificial intelligence in the form of the head of B-4, a prototype android discovered by Data, the android crew member on Star Trek: The Next Generation. This was followed by the Medicine section, which displayed tools and technological innovations used in space medicine throughout the Star Trek universe. We then headed back to the ground level, in the Space section, which demonstrated the type of protective gear that humans would need to survive beyond Earth.

The way the trail was scattered throughout the museum was ingenious, taking visitors to a significant portion of the galleries and displays throughout. While I was living long and prospering, I also got the opportunity to see displays of planes, trains, automobiles, telecommunications tools (including the infamous British telephone box), medical devices, engineering components, and of course, some clocks, because, as Captain Jean-Luc Picard said, time is a companion who goes with us on the journey.

I ended the tour in the gift shop, as Banksy would have predicted, and there I found a delightful display of Tribbles, who were actually not much trouble at all. In the shop, I got to try out a replica of the captain's chair from Star Trek: Discovery, and as it turns out, the Bremont Terra Nova 35mm Jumping Hour Frosted makes for a pretty good captain's watch.

The jumping hour complication is here to stay. Resistance is futile.

The Bremont Terra Nova 35mm Jumping Hour Frosted is available in a limited edition of 150 pieces and is priced at $5,150. More information is available on Bremont's website.

Go Do Something is not a paid endorsement. The purpose of the column is to wear a watch through a real experience and see how it holds up. The watch was loaned by Bremont for the purposes of this column.