New Movements from Marquee Brands Debut at Baselworld 2019

Though the number of exhibitors and attendees was significantly down at this year's Baselworld after Swatch Group pulled out 18 brands, the annual Swiss watch and jewelry fair did have some impressive new watch movements from a handful of major brands Seiko celebrated the 20th anniversary of its Grand Seiko Spring Drive movement with two new manual-winding Spring Drive calibers powering four 38.5mm dress watches in the brand's Elegant collection The development of the new Caliber 9R02 movement was tasked to the brand's elite Micro Artist Studio.

A pusher at 9 o'clock advances the central hour hand to set local time, while home time is tracked with a 24-hour scale on the sub-dial at 3 o'clock 5520P-001 Alarm Travel Time was understandably met with mixed reactions given its unorthodox profile with three pushers and a crown protruding from the sides of the hefty 42.2mm platinum Pilot Travel Time case Introduced in 1997, the Travel Time function is extremely user friendly with two hour hands: one solid for local time and one skeletonized for home time.

A pusher at 2 o'clock turns the alarm function on and off, while a three-position crown at 4 o'clock sets and winds the alarm, which has its own spring barrel, in addition to setting the time and winding the movement. . Source