LVMH Watch Week
January 14, 2020
After a decade of the formerly S.I.H.H now re branded as Watches & Wonders hosted in Geneva held ahead of the Baselworld LVMH hosts its own first ever watch fair in Dubai.
In the words of Jean-Christophe Babin,Bulgari Chief Executive “To unveil novelties before the watch world, before any other brand and any other group”
The official press conference of the LVMH Watch Week was held at The Bvlgari Hotels & Residences Dubai.
Dubai a choice not only because it contributes a good 10% of the sale for Hublot but is also a fun city.
New innovations in watches will be revealed over the next three days across the four Brands Bulgari, Hublot, Tag Heuer & Zenith.
Ricardo Guadalupe, Hublot Chief Executive
Jean-Christophe Babin Bulgari Chief Executive
Stéphane Bianchi Head of the LVMH Watch Division and TAG Heuer Chief Executive
Julien Tornare Zenith Chief Executive
Above are glimpses of some of the launches at the LVMH Watch Week
Bulgari Serpenti Seduttori Tourbillon
Hublot Big Band Integral
Zenith DEFY Midnight
TAG Heuer marking its 160 Anniversary will present one piece in Dubai but will largely showcase other launches at Baselworld
Chance Encounters
He went to Vegas for Christmas to forget all about love. Everything changed when a woman sat next to him at the poker table
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When Englishman Francis Chadwick decided to spend Christmas in Las Vegas, his goal was simply to escape everything.
It was 2014. Francis was 34 and in the middle of a divorce.
“I just wanted to get away,” Francis tells CNN Travel today. “Christmas being, obviously, quite a family orientated time of year I didn’t want to be around anything Christmassy. I was like, ‘Where’s the least Christmassy place I could go to?’ Vegas seemed like the place.”
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So while his family and friends were spending evenings enjoying festive drinks, decorating Christmas trees and watching “Love Actually,” Francis packed his bag, leaving his Christmas sweater behind, and headed to the United States.
“I was in Washington, D.C., for a couple of days. I went to Dallas for a few days, watched the Cowboys down there, and then on to Vegas over the Christmas period,” recalls Francis. “And my mindset at the time — I had no interest in women, relationships, anything at — I hadn’t even contemplated a relationship since the separation from my first wife.”
On Christmas Eve 2014, Francis was playing three-card poker at Vegas’ MGM Grand Hotel and Casino, a sweeping, vast gambling palace on the Vegas Strip.
He was pretty absorbed in the game when a woman sat down next to Francis, and he looked up.
The woman smiled widely, introducing herself as Tehzin from Toronto. Then, Tehzin introduced Francis to what seemed like her entire family, who all appeared to be in tow. Subsequently, Tehzin’s sister and brother-in-law sat down at the poker table next to her.
“So, how do we play?” Tehzin asked Francis, smiling again.
Francis didn’t know what to think. All he knew was he was drawn to Tehzin. Slowly, surprising himself, he smiled back. It felt like the first time he’d smiled properly in months.
Francis didn’t — at that point — know the significance of this moment.
“You’ve got me traveling to Vegas from the UK, Tehzin traveling there from Canada… What are the chances that we would actually cross paths at all, let alone everything else that happened next? It’s pretty crazy,” says Francis today.