1. John Tresch. “Cosmogram”. In Cosmograms, edited by Melik Ohanian and Jean-Christophe Royoux. New York: Lukas & Sternberg, 2005, pp. 67–76. Italian translation in L’Indiscreto ↗. On how ideas of the world find expression in buildings, objects and actions. The concept of the cosmogram and the example of the Tabernacle come from this text. The page also includes the translator's introduction.
2. Chakrasamvara mandala. Nepal, circa 1100. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Museum object record ↗. An example of an image organised around a centre. The comparison with a watch dial is the author's analogy.
3. René Guénon. The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times, chapter V: “The Qualitative Determinations of Time”. The link leads to the English text of The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times, Sophia Perennis, 2001. Read the chapter ↗. Guénon connects the measurement of time with movement and space and considers qualitative differences between periods of time.
4. Donald Norman. “Emotional Design: People and Things”. JND.org, 17 November 2008. Article on the author's website ↗. On the appeal of objects, their usability and the meaning we give them. The article includes examples of interactions with alarm clocks.
5. René Guénon. “Some Remarks on the Doctrine of Cosmic Cycles”. Excerpt in French ↗. On yugas, the proportions of cycles and interpretations of their duration.
6. René Guénon. The Symbolism of the Cross, chapter XV. Online publication of the French text, Représentation de la continuité des différentes modalités d’un même état d’être. Read the chapter ↗. On continuity, the circle and the spiral. Background for thinking about a return in which the original state has already changed.
7. Blancpain. «The History and the Legend of the Fifty Fathoms». Lettres du Brassus ↗. The history of the first Fifty Fathoms, their use by French combat divers and their selection by Jacques-Yves Cousteau's team for filming The Silent World.
8. Barrelhand. «Flight-Proven: First Monolith Flown to Space». Official publication ↗. An account of the Monolith prototype's flight beyond the Kármán line aboard Blue Origin NS-34 on 3 August 2025.
9. NASA. Portrait of Jacques-Yves Cousteau after the Calypso's Antarctic expedition, 1973. Image record on Wikimedia Commons ↗. Public domain in the United States as a work of NASA.

Guénon's philosophical ideas are presented as his position. Reading watches as cosmograms is the author's interpretation.