Breitling Builds a House.

While Richemont sheds a brand, Breitling is assembling a group. The consolidation era isn’t ending. It’s inverting.

At the end of 2023, Breitling acquired Universal Genève for sixty-nine million dollars. In the spring of 2025, it acquired Gallet for an undisclosed sum. In November 2025, at Dubai Watch Week, Georges Kern stood before a two-storey pavilion and announced what the two acquisitions were for: a structure called House of Brands, uniting three watchmakers un…