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We’ve teamed up with Chubb, the premier insurer of valuable collections.
No matter where your adventures take you across the globe, rest assured, your watches and jewelry remain safeguarded.
If you suffer a covered loss, there’s no deductible.
Each of your watches is covered up to 150% of the insured value (up to the total value of the policy).
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The fastest and most secure way to protect the watches and jewelry you love.
We’ve teamed up with Chubb, the premier insurer of valuable collections.
No matter where your adventures take you across the globe, rest assured, your watches and jewelry remain safeguarded.
If you suffer a covered loss, there’s no deductible.
Each of your watches is covered up to 150% of the insured value (up to the total value of the policy).
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The CEO of Dubai Watch Week reveals how she’s grown the event to record levels in just a decade and how she intends to keep it intimate and accessible in 2027.
On this week’s episode of The Business of Watches, a frank discussion with one of the most powerful women in the world of horology. Hind Seddiqi is the Chief Executive Officer of Dubai Watch Week, an event that’s grown and matured to become one of the few truly top-tier events on the watch sector calendar. As CEO of the biennial gathering, Seddiqi oversees the team that decides which brands get to exhibit their wares, which executives and collectors get to speak on the industry panels, and exactly how the massive show is staged, presented, and organized.
This year’s Dubai Watch Week was the most successful edition yet and marked a new era of international profile for an idea launched a decade ago by the United Arab Emirates retailer Ahmed Seddiqi as a way to showcase watchmaking and inform locals about the industry. Housed in a new, larger and purpose-built venue near the Burj Khalifa, Dubai Watch Week 2025 welcomed a record 49,000 visitors this year, a 113% increase from the previous edition.
The event, marking the 75th anniversary of the Seddiqi family retail empire, saw a wave of collector groups fly in from around the world to attend a show that offers up close and personal access to many of the biggest names in watchmaking, from Max Büsser, to Roger Smith, to Rexhep Rexhepi and the CEO of A. Lange & Söhne, Wilhelm Schmid.
Hind Seddiqi says one of her biggest challenges now is preserving the casual, spontaneous, and intimate feel of Dubai Watch Week as demand for a place at the table continues to rise. She talks about Dubai, its torrid growth (and punishing traffic), and the city’s increasingly important role in the international economy, and how she plans to manage the demands and expectations of a massively popular event.
We hope you enjoy our conversation with Hind Seddiqi. Be sure to leave any thoughts or questions in the comments section, and we’ll do our best to respond.
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