LVMH Watch Week 2024 in Miami units an optimistic tone for the 12 months forward. With a discreet enhance in Swiss watch exports final 12 months, the temper on the fifth annual occasion is effervescent. It’s a one-group affair, however the six LVMH watchmaking maisons cowl a large market demographic. Listed below are our highlights, plus an interview with Hublot’s CEO, Ricardo Guadalupe.
Six reveals of LVMH Watch Week 2024
Hublot Huge Bang Saxem
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Flamboyance continues to be the unstoppable title of Hublot’s sport, and nothing says future-proof grail watch a like sapphire case. There’s a specific attract within the never-knowingly-understated model’s means to craft a watch case from strong sapphire crystal. However this was not sufficient for Hublot, which created Saxem, a proprietary sapphire alloy with a vibrant inexperienced hue. CEO Ricardo Guadalupe advised us that it took nearly two years of R&D to create the uniform color of this chemical compound efficiently. We get it, Ricardo, and may’t assist feeling that the inexperienced flash of wrist property symbolises Hublot’s constructive outlook on 2024.
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Gerald Genta Minute Repeater for Solely Watch
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As a revived maison led by LVMH’s La Fabrique du Temps, Gérald Genta’s new watches return to the model’s three pillars of octagonal shapes, chiming sound, and haute horlogerie issues. And truthfully, the Disney-tinged dial of its Minute Repeater created for the Solely Watch charity public sale (postponed from 2023) sends a powerful sign. The infinite happiness of Mickey Mouse’s social gathering’s presence is an effervescent harbinger of optimism for 2024, and we will’t assist smiling.
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TAG Heuer
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With a pleasant mix of high-bar watchmaking and accessible cool, TAG Heuer introduced a curated collection of new releases. Retro continues to be sizzling for TAG, and we couldn’t assist however fall for a reissue of its cult traditional Dato Chronograph in a deep emerald inexperienced. This isn’t the primary reissue of the uneven single-register chronograph, however seen right here inside the new ‘Glassbox’ case design, this one provides one other dimension to its quirky cool.
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Zenith
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The Chronomaster Sport is dialling up the glamour in its bid for triple-register Chrono supremacy in opposition to the mighty Rolex Daytona. Certain, and what’s extra Miami than this, the primary gem-set model? On the core, it’s a function-packed watch primarily based on the high-beat El Primero chronograph motion. With tri-coloured registers on a gold-toned meteorite dial, it gives a singular wrist presence, however the bezel is the undisputed star. With a blue-to-black and gray development, diamonds are the cardinal-markers, with spinels, sapphires, and diamonds providing a blinding flash of color. Who’s up for an additional Miami Vice remake?
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Daniel Roth
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Daniel Roth’s revival by LVMH’s La Fabrique du Temps is an enormous deal for watch collectors already deep into the horological rabbit gap. With red-carpet stars like Timothée Chalamet having fun with small-cased attraction, this indefinable rounded class is zeitgeist excellent. As a part of the maison’s revival, the Tourbillon Souscription pays excellent homage to the 1989-founded model’s very first timepiece. The design language is marked by a double-ellipse case form of 38.6 x 35.5mm in yellow gold, whereas its hand-finished guilloche dial is a delight of sweeping curves.
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Bulgari
From Bulgari in Miami, there was a sense of studied evolution within the Octo Finissimo vary and designer Buonamassa Stigliani’s first yellow brushed gold model of the three-hander. However with a love of retro nonetheless lingering within the air, we’re all in regards to the Eighties stylish of the Bulgari Bulgari minimalism. Its 38mm of clean black with gilt markers in an 18ct gold case makes a quiet assertion of timeless intent.
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Ricardo Guadalupe on LVMH Watch Week and Hublot
Wallpaper* chatted with Hublot CEO Ricardo Guadalupe in regards to the significance of LVMH Watch Week, and the way, as one of many prime gamers out there, his model perceives 2024 and the occasion scene usually.
Wallpaper*: What does the occasion calendar imply for the LVMH watch manufacturers?
Ricardo Guadalupe: In 2020, we launched the primary version of LVMH Watch Week to create momentum for the watch maisons of our group in Dubai. It was a large success, and all of the friends (press and retailers) loved this initiative and the privilege of being knowledgeable of what was to be anticipated from our maisons for the 12 months to return. Then in 2021 and 2022, we maintained the [event], however digitally. For 2023, we went to Asia in Singapore, and for 2024, we wished to give attention to the Americas. The thought is to vary the area yearly, so this 12 months, we’re in Miami.
W*: How do you view the significance of this own-brand smaller idea vs the grandiose Watches and Wonders?
RG: We’re actually happy to have set a development with LVMH Watch Week since 2020. And by creating momentum within the busy calendar, we want to additional construct on this.
W*: What’s your view on the financial local weather initially of 2024 and its impression on the route of Hublot?
RG: After a 12 months of consolidation in 2023, I imagine 2024 would be the identical, and in addition it will likely be an thrilling 12 months for Hublot. I sit up for the most important occasion in European soccer – Euro 2024. We might be there to observe each second of the sport!
W*: What has the rise of LVMH Watch Week and its place meant for the group?
RG: I can communicate for Hublot. It’s a nice second for us to be current within the media worldwide and share the thrilling upcoming information of our maison with journalists and retailers.
Judging by Guadalupe’s feedback and the watches introduced by LVMH’s six maisons this week, the temper in watchmaking for 2024 is vibrant. Louis Vuitton’s personal watchmaking novelties are saved for April’s Watches and Wonders 2024, however beginning with Hublot’s inexperienced sapphire crystal Huge Bang, the season is off to a vibrant begin.
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