Look, I mean, I mean, Basel was over at this point. I mean, the show is, things are changed forever. There's no question about it.

It's a bit of musical chairs happening, you know, and I think today Rolex got up and kind of walked out of the group

and lifted the needle off the record and said like, okay, guess what? The Hey everybody. I'm your host Stephen Polvern and this is a special bonus episode of

Hodinky Radio. You may or may not have seen but this morning news broke that Rolex, Tudor,

Patek Philippe, Schopard, and Chanel are leaving Baselworld.

These five major brands are going to be setting up their own new watch show with the FH.

It'll start in April 2021, and this is absolutely massive news.

Everybody's first question I think is, is Basel World dead?

Is this the end of Basel World?

So I thought I would grab Ben, James, and Jack on a quick Zoom call. So we could talk

through the news. This just landed in our inbox a couple hours ago. We've got a story up on the site,

but I thought it was important to get our first

impressions out there and we're going to have tons of reporting as this develops.

So without further ado, let's do it. Hey team. How are you guys doing?

All right.

Yeah, we're here.

I love the thumbs up and that this is an audio medium and we get a yeah it's's great. It's perfect. You're a pro at this

We woke up this morning to some pretty pretty wild news so I wanted to hop on a call with you guys real quick so we could talk through it and get our first reactions.

We started having a conversation in our company Slack this morning relatively early because Rolex, Patek Philippe,

Chanel, Schopard, and Tudor have jointly

announced that they are leaving Basel World

and starting a brand new watch show with the FHH in 2021.

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