Hallo Carsten,
der SIHH wurde in "Watches & Wonders" ungenannt: https://bellevue.nzz.ch/mode-beauty/watc...sihh-ld.1516759
Somit ist es der Genfer Uhrensalon, der abgesagt wurde. Ich bin mal gespannt, ob Basel folgt. Die Swatch Group hat ihren "Time to Move" Event der diese und nächste Woche in Zürich stattfinden sollte ja auch schon länger abgesagt. Im Moment trifft es ja viele Fachmessen, der Mobile World Congress in Barcelona wurde abgesagt. Wir wären diese Woche als Aussteller auf der embedded World in Nürnberg gewesen, aber Microsoft hat die Teilnahme abgesagt. Ich war am Dienst als Besucher dort, es war fast eine "Geistermesse", viele leere Plätze, Stände, die zwar aufgebaut aber nicht mehr besetzt wurden, wenig Besucher. Die Light & Building wurde auf September verschoben. Mal sehen, ob die Hannover Messe Ende April stattfindet.

gerade kam über die Ticker, dass die Schweiz Großveranstaltungen mit mehr als 1000 Personen bis Mitte März verbietet: https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/soziales/coronavirus-schweiz-verbietet-veranstaltungen-mit-mehr-als-1000-menschen-a-86803b45-0708-4a54-9530-0163ca11388b

Damit dürfte jetzt auch der Genfer Autosalon nicht stattfinden. Die Baselworld ist zwar erst Ende April, aber mal sehen, was da noch passiert.

Und gerade kommt die Pressemeldung über die Absage der Baselworld:

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Basel, Switzerland, 28 February 2020 – For health safety reasons and in accordance with the precautionary principle following the bans of large-scale public and private events issued today by the Swiss federal and cantonal authorities, Baselworld announces that it has taken the decision to postpone the show to Thursday 28th January 2021 to Tuesday 2nd February 2021 (Press Day on Wednesday 27th January), due to concerns related to Covid-19.

Baselworld, which was to be held from April 30th to May 5th , 2020, has taken this difficult decision in close consultation with its partners and the health authorities in charge, in whom Baselworld has full confidence for their expertise and recommendations for the benefit of exhibitors, visitors and collaborators. Following today’s official ban on large public gatherings which meant direct repercussions for the show, Baselworld had no other option than to make a decision as all preparations, in particular, construction in the halls and of the stands was scheduled to commence next week (start March).

Michel Loris-Melikoff, Managing Director of Baselworld said: “We deeply regret having had to postpone the event as planned due to the coronavirus, in full consideration of the needs of the watch and jewellery industry to be able to benefit from the platform to develop their business. This decision has been all the more difficult in view of all the positives that have been achieved through listening and dialogue over the last few months, which resulted in new concepts and new solutions, that have attracted exhibitors to return and new ones to sign on. We registered encouraging growth in all sectors; watchmaking, jewellery, the gemstone and pearl trade, as well as in the technical branch.

By postponing the show to January 2021, we have found a solution that enables the industry and all our customers to avoid losing a full year and at the same time reset their calendars for the beginning of the year, a period that is conductive to the presentation of their new products, new trends and order taking. This postponing will also allow Baselworld to continue developing and bringing new formats and solutions as well as improvements to the new concept we propose.”

Bernd Stadlwieser, Group CEO of MCH said: "Within the process of the last weeks, I was very impressed by the involvement and trust of all our customers, partners, stakeholders and team, to pro-actively find the very best solution in the interests of the industries. By communicating intensively all together, we were able to work on different scenarios and to jointly decide on the very best one. I would like to thank everybody for their belief in and commitment to our platform.”

Baselworld is not only the largest watch and jewellery event in the world, but is also destined to become the industry's largest global community platform, active all year round. In the coming weeks, we will be presenting a new digital service that is essential and useful to our entire community, and which we trust will meet the needs of the brands that have become even more important in these difficult and turbulent times.”

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Gerade kam die Meldung, dass Rolex, Tudor, Patek Philippe, Chanel, und Chopard nicht mehr an der Baselworld 2021 teilnehmen, und stattdessen zusammen mit der FHH eine Messe in Genf im April 2021 machen. Das dürfte dann wohl das Ende für die Baselworld bedeuten ?

genau, das sind die, die bisher schon den Genfer Uhrensalon SIHH, jetzt Watches & Wonders Geneva veranstaltet haben, also quasi die Konkurrenzveranstaltung zur Baselworld.

Jetzt haben auch noch LMVH (TAG Heuer, Hublot, Zenith, Bulgari) für die Baselworld 2021 abgesagt und wollen stattdessen in Genf auftreten. Das dürfte wohl der letzte Sargnagel für die Baselworld sein.