TAG Heuer, Hublot, Zenith Are Also Leaving Baselworld

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TAG Heuer, Hublot, Zenith Are Also Leaving Baselworld

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More companies abandoning Baselworld's sinking ship.

TAG Heuer, Hublot, Zenith Are Also Leaving Baselworld
By Michelle Graff
michelle.graff@nationaljeweler.com
April 20, 2020


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TAG Heuer, Hublot and Zenith, the three brands in LVMH’s watch division, won’t be exhibiting at Baselworld in January 2021. Pictured here is one of the new watches from the Autavia collection TAG Heuer introduced at Baselworld last year.

"Paris—TAG Heuer, Hublot and Zenith, the three brands that comprise LVMH’s watchmaking division, said Friday they won’t be exhibiting at Baselworld in 2021.

The exit of the three brands spell the end of LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton’s participation in the trade show, as Bulgari announced in February it would not be doing Baselworld this year.

And it follows last week’s news that four of the floundering trade show’s keystone brands—Rolex, Patek Philippe, Chopard and Chanel—were pulling out of Baselworld and starting a new watch trade show that will take place in Geneva in April 2021, in conjunction with Watches & Wonders Geneva.

In a statement, LVMH said TAG Heuer, Hublot and Zenith had “taken note” of the four brands’ decision and came to the conclusion that they, along with Bulgari, needed to withdraw too, to “preserve their image and their relations with their clients as well with the media.”

They said they would join the other Swiss watch brands in Geneva in April 2021, noting in the statement that having the entire industry organize around the same dates and place is “a major opportunity to at last revive a sector that all too many divisions and divergent interests have weakened compared to the rest of the luxury sector.”

But LVMH, which held its own watch event in January at the Bulgari hotel in Dubai, did not expressly commit to the new Geneva show.

It said its four brands are “examining various potential event formats” and that LVMH’s watchmaking division—TAG Heuer, Hublot and Zenith—and Bulgari will each make their own decisions about how they will exhibit in Geneva in the coming weeks.

A name and dates for the new trade show, which will take place at the Palexpo in Geneva, ... "

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