LVMH’s Jean-Claude Biver Winds Up

Jean-Claude Biver is a man on the move. As head of the watch division at LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, the 66-year-old executive is on the road more often than not, drumming up business for the luxury conglomerate’s three Swiss watch brands: Tag Heuer, Hublot and Zenith. On a Tuesday in February, he was in Paris to pore over contracts with two potential megapartners in Tag Heuer’s first smartwatch venture. Two days later, he appeared in New York, posing alongside basketball star Dwyane Wade and Israeli model Bar Refaeli at the fashion week event introducing her as the new face of Hublot. Having eased out of day-to-day operations at Hublot in 2011, leaving his longtime lieutenant Ricardo Guadalupe to take over as chief executive officer, the man considered an icon in watch industry circles appeared ready to devote more time to his other great passion: Making cheese in the Swiss Alps. Instead, he not only took charge of timepieces at LVMH last year, but also in December added the role of ceo of Tag Heuer — officially on an interim basis, though Biver sees himself holding the position at least two years. “I can do 10, I don’t care,” he says. “But I would like

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