And Phillips's admiration for Abstract Expressionism, when that was still a suspect style, is evident in pieces by Richard Diebenkorn and Willem de Kooning, among others.
It is evident in the 1, 200 sculptures, large and small, he created in, as he proudly noted, seven continents. (A de Weldon monument of Richard Byrd, an American polar explorer, is in McMurdo Sound, in Antarctica).
Richard Mille is known for rugged sports watches made with unusual metals, while De Bethune's Denis Flageollet and David Zanetta pioneered the use of silicon and reinvented the balance spring.