{"id":40399,"date":"2018-03-02T11:41:47","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T11:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/?p=40399"},"modified":"2018-03-02T11:42:03","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T11:42:03","slug":"brit-loving-benoit-lecigne-promoted-hublot-general-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/brit-loving-benoit-lecigne-promoted-hublot-general-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"Brit-loving Benoit Lecigne promoted to Hublot general manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Benoit Lecigne has been promoted by Hublot to general manager for France, Benelux, UK, Ireland, Eastern Europe and Scandinavia. He was previously brand director for the same territory.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A brief statement from Hublot CEO Ricardo Guadalupe says: &#8220;We thank him for his commitment and wish him all the best in his future challenges.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The promotion could be good news for Hublot\u2019s UK partners as the Frenchman is a self-confessed Anglophile.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI adore your culture, I admire your history and I strongly believe there is no better dressed man than an English one,\u201d he enthused to <em>WatchPro<\/em> when he was featured in our Hot 100 in 2016 (pictured above).<\/p>\n<p>He also loves our cars. \u201cI am convinced that the United Kingdom has the best car brands, except Ferrari of course, and if one day I fulfil my dream \u2013 the one of buying an Aston Martin DB5 \u2013 I will feel that I have become a genuine English gentleman!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benoit Lecigne has been promoted by Hublot to general manager for France, Benelux, UK, Ireland, Eastern Europe and Scandinavia. He was previously brand director for the same territory. A brief statement from Hublot CEO Ricardo Guadalupe says: &#8220;We thank him for his commitment and wish him all the best in his future challenges.&#8221; The promotion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":40400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false},"categories":[7039,2,3],"tags":[100],"newspack_lstngs_evt":[],"newspack_lstngs_gen":[],"newspack_lstngs_mkt":[],"newspack_lstngs_plc":[],"acf":[],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"WATCHPRO","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40399"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40399"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_evt","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_evt?post=40399"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_gen","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_gen?post=40399"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_mkt","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_mkt?post=40399"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_plc","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_plc?post=40399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}