{"id":123744,"date":"2026-09-01T13:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T13:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/123744\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T13:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T13:37:08","slug":"a-beginners-guide-to-geneva-watch-days-2026-decentralised-watch-fair-blue-box-exhibition-and-top-independent-brands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/123744\/","title":{"rendered":"A Beginner\u2019s Guide to Geneva Watch Days 2026: Decentralised Watch Fair, Blue Box Exhibition and Top Independent Brands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Geneva Watch Days began in 2020, when eight brands (Breitling, Bulgari, De Bethune, Girard-Perregaux, H. Moser &amp; Cie, MB&amp;F, Ulysse Nardin and Urwerk) needed somewhere to show their watches after the pandemic shut down the usual trade fairs. Rather than book one hall and call it a day, they scattered themselves across Geneva&#8217;s hotels and boutiques over a period of a week and invited the public in for free.<\/p>\n<p>By 2025, the format had proven itself, drawing 66 brands, roughly 14,000 visitors and close to 1,900 industry professionals, retailers, collectors and media through Geneva. This year&#8217;s 71 brands make 2026 the biggest edition yet, all set to display their watches from September 2nd to 6th across the city.<\/p>\n<p>Central to the show is the Main Pavilion at the Rotonde du Mont-Blanc, right on the lake, alongside a new addition for 2026: the Blue Box, a curated exhibition of more than 130 watches grouped into four themes (Air, Earth, Fire and Water).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Geneva Watch Days began in 2020, when eight brands (Breitling, Bulgari, De Bethune, Girard-Perregaux, H. Moser &amp; Cie,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123745,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7],"tags":[60559,60560,60556,60561,60554,60558,65,24395,60563,60557,60553,32936,60555,45319,60552,1659,60562],"class_list":["post-123744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-geneva","tag-anordain-porcelain","tag-atelier-wen","tag-blue-box","tag-bremont-supernova","tag-decentralized-fair","tag-fears-brunswick","tag-geneva","tag-geneva-watch-days","tag-geneva-watch-days-guide","tag-gphg","tag-horology-event","tag-independent-watchmaking","tag-rotonde-du-mont-blanc","tag-watch-collectors","tag-watch-festival","tag-watches-wonders","tag-what-is-geneva-watch-days"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/117196059174597736","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}