Jean-Claude Biver
Luxembourger-Swiss watchmaker and former CEO of TAG HeuerWikipedia
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Sep 19, 2026
Arto ArtinianGUEST
And the watches were only launched in 2026 April during Watch and Wonders.
Scarlett TheshireHOST
What's it like to have a family-run business? You know, we look at the watch industry, you have the likes of Chopin, you have the likes of Biver.
Scarlett TheshireHOST
Does it bring something different having a family-run organization, do you think?
Arto ArtinianGUEST
I think most family-run businesses, they have quite similar mindset, you know.
Alon Ben JosephHOST
Who am I copying when I say, God damn! God damn, Mr.
Alon Ben JosephHOST
Biver.
Alon Ben JosephHOST
Your previous boss.
Alon Ben JosephHOST
God damn, why did you only make 10?
Julien TornareGUEST
And then it went a little bit down end of the 90s, early 2000.
Julien TornareGUEST
Then it was relaunched by Jean-Claude Biver that we know very well, thanks to the Big Bang and its success.
Julien TornareGUEST
And it had been two decades of incredible growth.
Julien TornareGUEST
So when you grow very fast like that, you also need sometimes to digest a bit and to think about, okay, what are the next growth that I will experience in the future and how I'm going to do it? This within a very turbulent environment, because two years ago, we're talking 2024.
Julien TornareGUEST
Think about Mr. Coco launching rubber for the first time in the 80s.
Julien TornareGUEST
Now, all the brands are using rubber straps.
Julien TornareGUEST
Think about Jean-Claude Biver launching the sapphire and the ceramic, and now so many brands are using those materials.
Julien TornareGUEST
So Hublot is always ahead of the other ones in terms of new materials.
Ripley SellersPANELIST
There's going to be a
Ariel AdamsHOST
whole generation of watch enthusiasts that went to Basel's and remember all of this cheese and how it was served everywhere and he couldn't go to an event without there being Biver cheese.
Ariel AdamsHOST
And, you know, it's a perishable thing.
Ariel AdamsHOST
So...
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RickHOST
to be fair it is a pretty watch there is no doubt about that it's very pretty watch let's go on then to something which was released last week
Ariel AdamsHOST
i got some breaking news after that
RickHOST
oh breaking news give us your breaking news Beef is backed into cheese?
Ariel AdamsHOST
No, that would be cheesy news.
Andrew MorganHOST
Whilst I don't disagree entirely, I also don't fully agree, because I actually think a lot of what Hublot does is pretty cool.
Andrew MorganHOST
The revival of Hublot under Jean-Claude Biver, the great watch brand first responder, was meteoric.
Andrew MorganHOST
You could say it went off with a big bang, because the art of fusion in that 2005 release was so explosive they should probably be banned on airplanes.
Andrew MorganHOST
Some of those early watches are a product of their time, before we as collectors had really been weaned off ETA calibers.
Jason FriedGUEST
This is true.
Jason FriedGUEST
Yeah, we need to bring back the days of, uh, Jean-Claude Biver hand-delivering Blancpain watches to, uh, [laughs] the connoisseurs that were collecting back in the '80s.
Jason FriedGUEST
That's cool.
Jason FriedGUEST
Uh... [laughs] Well, that's actually, that's another thing that, that watches can learn from tech, is, is doing things that don't scale.
JPHOST
then?
Ryan CrawfordHOST
No, because I think Biver is very...
Ryan CrawfordHOST
I'm not saying that he minds my angles or anything like that, I'm not saying that, but I don't think Biver's going to get a lot of products because he just does the simple thing very well, mate.
Ryan CrawfordHOST
He just keeps it ticking.
Ryan CrawfordHOST
He does the donkey work in the park.
RickyHOST
They've been going for a very, very long time, probably not as long as Blancpain when you connect all the dots together.
RickyHOST
But the price point on this, if you like it, if you like the brand name, if you love the heritage or the history, the storytelling, like a little bit of Jean-Claude Biver in your life, then this is one to look at.
RickyHOST
But there are options out there, and if you're not a brand snob, having Seiko on the dial ain't nothing wrong with that.
RickyHOST
But I'm seeing more and more people are moving away from Seiko.