It is now the turn of the world's number one watchmaker, the Swatch Group, to undertake a vast reshuffle of its management team, with an emphasis on Longines, Rado, Union Glashütte, Tissot, Certina and Hamilton. All the new appointees are internal candidates, which reveals in passing a characteristic of this group with industrial origins – which will be perceived by some as a strength (via a reassuring and "balancing" stability), by others as a weakness (in a world that is changing ever more rapidly) – a strong thread of consistency.