Maison 52 of 100 · Haute Horology
Hublot
The reading
The house that made the 21st-century sports watch a materials story: ceramic, magic gold, sapphire cases. LVMH’s volume-and-spectacle watch pillar, opposite TAG Heuer’s racing grammar and Zenith’s movement grammar.
The house
- Origin
- Switzerland
- Founded
- 1980
- Atelier
- Haute Horology
- Ownership
- LVMH
- Signature
- Big Bang / Spirit of Big Bang
- Register note
- Art of fusion This line is the register’s own characterisation, not a sourced figure; see Méthode.
How the register places it
LVMH holds twenty-one of the hundred, this one among them: Louis Vuitton, Dior, Celine, Fendi, Loewe, Givenchy, and fourteen more. It is one of sixteen maisons filed here from Switzerland, the third-largest national group in the register. Sorted oldest first, the hundred put it 82nd. Counted inside its own room it stands 12th of the eighteen houses this register files under Haute Horology. Haute Horology in this register runs from 1735 to 2001, with a median founding year of 1862; Hublot is 118 years younger than that median. The register's oldest house is Rémy Martin (1724) and its youngest Genesis (2015); this one was founded 1980.