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Hublot Starts the Clock - One Year to go Until the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™ Begins
DOHA, Qatar , Nov. 23, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- 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.
Ricardo Guadalupe , HUBLOT CEO.
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.
Founded in Switzerland in 1980, HUBLOT is defined by its innovation, which began with the highly original combination of gold and rubber. This "Art of Fusion" stems from the imagination of its visionary Chairman, Jean-Claude Biver , and has been driven forward by CEO Ricardo Guadalupe since 2012.
The release of the iconic, multi-award-winning Big Bang in 2005 paved the way for new flagship collections (Classic Fusion, Spirit of Big Bang), with complications ranging from the simple to the highly sophisticated, establishing the extraordinary DNA of the Swiss watchmaking house and ensuring its impressive growth.
Keen to preserve its traditional and cutting-edge expertise, and guided by its philosophy to "Be First, Different and Unique", the Swiss watchmaker is consistently ahead of the curve, through its innovations in materials (scratch-resistant Magic Gold, ceramics in vibrant colours, sapphire), and the creation of Manufacture movements (Unico, Meca-10, Tourbillon).
HUBLOT is fully committed to creating a Haute Horlogerie brand with a visionary future: a future which is fused with the key events of our times (FIFA World Cup , UEFA Champions League, UEFA EURO ) and the finest ambassadors our era has to offer (Chiara Ferragni, Pelé, Kylian Mbappé, Usain Bolt, Novak Djokovic ).
Discover the HUBLOT universe at our network of boutiques located in key cities across the globe: Geneva , Paris , London , New York , Hong Kong , Dubai , Tokyo , Singapore , Zurich and at HUBLOT.com
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