The Swatch Group decided to forgo Baselworld in 2019 and have its 12 exhibiting brands release their latest novelties on their own terms. While we’ve seen a number of releases slowly trickle out over the past six months, it’s all led up to this week for the Swiss conglomerate. WatchTime was one of the select few American publications invited to attend the inaugural “Time to Move” event that took place over the past four days in Switzerland. We spent that time meeting with six of the Swatch Group’s most prestigious marques ? Breguet, Blancpain, Jaquet Droz, Glashütte Original, Harry Winston, and Omega ? to view the watches that would be defining the rest of the year. Here are the highlights so far. 
In 2018, Jaquet Droz veered into uncharted territory for the normally sober-minded and dress watch-focused brand with the Grande Seconde Skelet-One (which my colleague Mark Bernardo reviewed here). This year, Jaquet Droz has continued to build out its tentpole range in unexpected ways with the addition of a monopusher chronograph to the Grande Seconde collection. The Jaquet Droz Grande Seconde Monopusher Chronograph in red gold is limited to 88 pieces.
The new Jaquet Droz Grande Seconde Chronograph lineup consists of four new timepieces with three iterations being added to the permanent collection and a single limited-edition release to celebrate the new appearance for the Grande Seconde. Utilizing the same figure-eight design that the range is k...