Spring is the season for watch launches, and this year Watches & Wonders Geneva returned to an in-person watch fair after two years of virtual events, with the dominance of sports high quality replica watches showing no signs of slowing. And there’s no better complement to the popular style than the chronograph, which functions as a stopwatch on the wrist. The earliest known chronograph is attributed to French watchmaker Louis Moinet, whose 1816 Compteur de Tierces (thirds timer) surfaced in a 2012 Christie’s auction. Before, the chronograph origin story was linked to a “time-writing” device by Nicolas Rieussec dating to...