21 November 2021 ONE YEAR TO GO UNTIL THE FIFA WORLD CUP QATAR 2022™ BEGINS! The countdown to the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™ has begun and Hublot’s timing every second of it. Doha, November 21, 2021 – Hublot loves football! The luxury Swiss watch company – first, unique, different – is delighted to announce the unveiling of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™ Official Countdown Clock. Today marks one year until the tournament gets under way on November 21st, 2022. The countdown started with a kickoff from French FIFA World Cup™ winner and Hublot Friend of the Brand, the legendary Marcel Desailly, who was joined on stage by Coach Sami Trabelsi and local ambassador Adel Khamis. The clock, which forms part of a striking sculpture that stands 5,75 metres high, will stand on the Qatar capital Doha’s Corniche Fishing Spot, a beautiful pier overlooking the shimmering waters of the Persian Gulf. “Exactly one year to go! The world will be brought together during the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™ in a festival of football like never before. Once again, Hublot is so proud and so excited to be the tournament’s Official Timekeeper and to be timing every match, right through to the final on December 18th 2022. This will be the fourth time we’ve performed the role, a great honour that will put Hublot on television screens in living rooms all over the world. Football, or soccer as it’s known in the US, is such a beautiful, intricate game that brings pleasure – and sometimes pain! – to billions of people around the globe. The discipline of mechanical watchmaking is a perfect fit. The best teams run like clockwork! Hublot loves football!” Ricardo Guadalupe HUBLOT CEO Marcel Desailly, Ricardo Guadalupe & Gianni Infantino Hublot became the first luxury company to enter football in 2006. It first timed the FIFA World Cup™ in South Africa in 2010, a role it reprised four years later in Brazil and then again in Russia in 2018. The company is now the first name in football timekeeping, with partnerships and timekeeping responsibilities for the UEFA European Championships (known as the Euros), the UEFA Champions League and the Premier League. It’s also the Official Watch of some of the world’s most prestigious football clubs, including Juventus, Chelsea, AFC Ajax and Benfica, and is proud to count a number of the game’s most celebrated individuals as Ambassadors, including Pelé, José Mourinho, Didier Deschamps and superstar French striker Kylian Mbappé. LATEST NEWS BIG BANG NIGHT: KYLIAN MBAPPE AND USAIN BOLT JOIN HUBLOT IN THE CELEBRATION OF THE 20 YEARS OF ITS ICONIC MODEL Geneva, 3rd April 2025 - Hublot marked the 20th anniversary of its iconic Big Bang model with a memorable evening and first ever encounter of its ambassadors Kylian Mbappé and Usain Bolt at the Geneva Arena, as part of the Watches & Wonders fair. This unforgettable celebration was a tribute to Hublot's trailblazing spirit and an ode to the brand's "Art of Fusion". learn more HUBLOT’S CHROMATIC CERAMIC IN FULL BLOOM: INTRODUCING THE BIG BANG UNICO AND BIG BANG ONE CLICK 33MM PAIR IN PETROL BLUE AND MINT GREEN CERAMIC April 1st, Geneva, Switzerland. There’s an undeniable allure when it comes to vividly coloured ceramics. Going where no watch brand has gone before and continuing to explore the full spectrum of its possibilities, Hublot once again demonstrates its unrivalled mastery of the material with two new colours, making their debut in two pairs of emblematic Big Bang models. Unisex in their appeal and inspired by fashionable yet timeless spring tones, these two new ceramic colours are complementary yet vastly different. Evocative, alluring and simply like nothing else out there. learn more
