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LVMH Watch Boss Sees Jean Arnault as Best Candidate for His Role

Jean Arnault during an earnings news conference at the company’s headquarters in Paris.Photographer: Benjamin Girette/Bloomberg

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By Angelina Rascouet and Allegra Catelli

April 29, 2026 at 4:22 PM UTC

Jean-Christophe Babin, the head of LVMH’s watch division, says he’s ready for a phased retirement and Jean Arnault would be an obvious candidate to succeed him as head of the unit that includes labels like TAG Heuer and Hublot.

Arnault, 27, who’s the youngest child of LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE’s billionaire Chief Executive Officer Bernard Arnault and looks after the watch category of the group’s biggest label Louis Vuitton, would be “the perfect person to take over that division,” Babin, 67, told Bloomberg News in an interview Wednesday.