Developed in-house from scratch over a six year period, manufactured components in-house and finally assembled in-house, the Frederique Constant Flyback Chronograph Manufacture is a marvel. This FC-760 complication is inspired by 1930s Flyback Chronographs and a desire to go beyond a regular chronograph construction. Whereas the regular chronograph function is used as a stopwatch to measure time during a specific elapsed interval, with a Flyback, a user is able to operate the chronograph without resetting it to zero every time. With the flyback, the chronographs hand can be stopped, reset to zero, and restarted with one push of a button. This function is essential for timing an elapsed interval of events during races. An unmistakable characteristic of high-quality chronographs is a column wheel rotating on bearings to control the three start, stop and reset functions. In conventional mechanisms, this component has several columns. In contrast, the caliber FC-760 has no standard-type column wheel, but a star-shaped one. Together with the operating lever, which is controlled by the start/stop push-piece, this component is responsible for the exceptionally smooth operation of the mechanism.