The show that was due to replace the ill-fated Baselworld has been postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic. HourUniverse had been scheduled for 8 to 12 April In Basel, Switzerland, but a notice on the organizers’ website simply says: “Due to the prevailing COVID-19 pandemic, we are assessing new dates to hold a live HourUniverse […]
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]]>The company behind Baselworld, the iconic but ill-fated trade show, has announced details of its successor – a new watch and jewelry event called HourUniverse. It will take place in Basel, Switzerland, in April 2021, timed to fit around other industry events, notably a rival event in Geneva by ex-Baselworld exhibitors Rolex and Patek Philippe. […]
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]]>Bvlgari, Hublot, TAG Heuer, and Zenith will exhibit at Baselworld 2020. Collaboration on the concept for 2021 and beyond. BASEL, Switzerland, April 2019 – The LVMH Group has confirmed its participation for Baselworld 2020 within the current framework for its Bvlgari, Hublot, TAG Heuer, and Zenith brands. For 2021 and the following years, Baselworld is […]
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]]>Baselworld runs until March 26, 2019. And while the show has been and still is heavily criticized, there is also some good news. At the opening press conference, it was announced that in 2018, the Swiss Watch industry recorded a 6.3 percent increase in exports, and had reported a turnover of CHF 21.2 billion. But […]
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]]>The floor plan for Baselworld 2019 can be unveiled for the first time today and shows how the space vacated by Swatch Group has been used for more places to eat, drink, meet and network with the press. The show’s 500 exhibiting brands occupy Halls 1, 3 and 4. None of the three storey Hall […]
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]]>More than 500 brands will exhibit at this month’s Baselworld, a significant drop from the roughly 650 that presented in 2018, but not the catastrophic collapse that some feared after Swatch Group pulled out. A list of participating brands, published today at Baselworld.com, shows 468 exhibitors, headed by the big watch guns of Rolex, Patek […]
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]]>Luxury jewellery brand de Grisogono has confirmed its founder, Fawaz Gruosi, has left the company and stepped down from his position as a board director. This was not a sudden decision, but one the firm has been moving towards, with Gruosi stepping away from day-to-day operations for some time now. Chairman of the board of […]
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]]>Two organizers of important watch industry tradeshows – the Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie (SIHH) and Baselworld – have agreed to coordinate their dates from 2020 to 2024. The SIHH will be staged from April 26 to 29 in Geneva in 2020, with Baselworld taking place from April 30 to May 5. Next year, […]
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]]>Longstanding managing director of Switzerland-based trade show Baselworld, Sylvie Ritter, has resigned. Ritter has spent over quarter of a century at MCH Group, which runs Baselworld, and 15 as managing director of the prestigious jewellery and watch event. “After 26 years with the MCH Group – 15 of which were as managing director of Baselworld […]
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