LVMH Watch Week 2021 opened today following the success of last year's inaugural edition in Dubai. The format, which due to the current pandemic will take place digitally from 25 to 29 January, will allow Bulgari, Hublot and Zenith (TAG Heuer, which has a big launch in store for 4 February, will not participate) to present their latest creations to the press and customers around the world, combining state-of-the-art tools and live one-to-one presentations in 15 countries. "LVMH Watch Week proved to be an important opportunity for our industry to meet with all our partners at the beginning of the year and we are very grateful to them for responding to our invitation," said Stéphane Bianchi, CEO of the Group's Watches and Jewellery Division.
Among the new Bulgari watches, a prominent place goes to the Octo Finissimo S Chronograph GMT, a model that further expands the Octo Finissimo S line introduced just a year ago. It is equipped with the ultra-thin BVL318 calibre (the thickness is only 3.30 millimetres), a self-winding mechanical movement with chronograph and GMT function, enclosed in a steel case (the thickness in this case is 8.75 millimetres). It sports a new sun-blue dial with silver counters and a larger screw-down crown than previous models sandblasted to ensure water resistance to 100 metres.
One of Hublot's novelties, the Big Bang Tourbillon Automatic Orange Sapphire, in a limited edition of 50 pieces, represents a world first for the brand, adding a completely new hue to its palette of coloured sapphire crystals, as well as an entirely reworked tourbillon movement, the calibre MHUB6035, equipped not only with automatic winding but also with a reinvented architecture with a micro-rotor visible from the side of the dial and three sapphire bridges.
Zenith, on the other hand, presented its Chronomaster Sport, powered by the new high-frequency El Primero 3600 calibre (mechanical self-winding, 36,000 vibrations per hour, 60-hour power reserve) offering even more performance and precision than its predecessor. The display of the tenths of a chrono seconds is via a hand in the centre and hour markers on the black ceramic bezel, a unique feature of this watch. With a steel case 41 millimetres in diameter, it is available in two references that, regardless of the black or white colour of the dial, feature the characteristic El Primero chronograph counters in the three colours blue, anthracite and light grey, characteristic of the A386 model from 1969.
