Hublot has just made public its construction plans for a new manufacture. The watchmaking company intends to extend its production centre and develop other watchmaking-related projects. The building should materialise in 2009.

No one can ignore the blistering growth of Hublot since its management was taken over by Jean-Claude Biver in 2004. With sales increasing fourfold in two years and a never-ending list of commissions, production has been forced to keep up! To be able to develop and optimise its activity, the brand is pulling out all the stops and plans a spanking new development for 2009.



Currently employing around 70 people, Hublot is reckoning on raising the number to 150 in the next two years. The head office, whose total business area will cover over 4,000 square metres on six levels (two in the basement), will be situated at La Vuarpilière, in Nyon’s industrial zone. The building will be visible from the nearby motorway and therefore tens of thousands of cars every day! It will also be easy to access, at less than one kilometre from the motorway exit.

The goal is to integrate all the various production stages into the manufacture. The Hublot building will house a training site, machining, movement winding, assembly, quality control and complications workshops, as well as the research & development and administrative departments.

In a bid to develop training and facilitate the integration of new companies, Jean-Claude Biver has planned to create a school with independent access offering watchmaker apprenticeship courses. 300 square metres will also be made available at preferential rates to start-ups and craftsmen in order to create a knowledge emulation and skills centre.

The global cost of the project some out at nearly 15 million Swiss Francs and is to be partly or wholly self-financed.

Source: Hublot

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