With gratitude, and grace.

Honorary president of Patek Philippe who guarded a family maison's soul and gave the world its grand complications.

Thank you for tending time itself with such patience, and for believing a watch is something you look after and pass on.

Singer and multi-instrumentalist whose Voodoo and Brown Sugar shaped the whole of neo-soul.

Thank you for the ache and the groove, and for reminding us that soul is worth every year of patience.

The Beach Boys songwriter and producer behind Pet Sounds and God Only Knows.

Thank you for hearing harmonies the rest of us could only feel, and for giving them to the whole world.

Tabla maestro who carried Indian classical rhythm to every corner of the world.

Thank you for hands that spoke, and for teaching the world to listen to the drum as a voice.

Producer, composer, and bandleader whose reach spanned jazz, pop, and film across seven decades.

Thank you for lifting up everyone around you, and for a life that proved generosity and genius are the same craft.

Finnish composer of luminous, shimmering orchestral and operatic music.

Thank you for colors no one had heard before, and for the quiet courage to write them.

Saxophonist and composer, a giant of jazz with Miles Davis, Weather Report, and his own quartet.

Thank you for chasing the sound just past the edge of the known, and for never once looking back.

Pianist and composer who redrew the map of jazz and fusion.

Thank you for the joy in every phrase, and for playing to the very last with a beginner's delight.

Composer of more than four hundred film scores, from the Westerns to Cinema Paradiso.

Thank you for melodies that gave whole films their heart, and that we carry long after the credits.

Songwriter of plainspoken grace, beloved for Angel from Montgomery and Hello in There.

Thank you for finding the whole of a life in a few kind, funny, honest lines.

The watchmaker who made watches almost entirely by hand and invented the co-axial escapement.

Thank you for proving one pair of hands could still master every part of time, and for teaching the next.