Hublot re-engineers the rainbow to brighten its MP-09 Tourbillon Bi-Axis 5-Day Power Reserve, creating a colorized ‘Rainbow’ version of the existing complicated watch.
Rather than rely on gemstones to reflect the light, Hublot has woven colorful high-tech composite materials into the carbon case on the new MP-09 Tourbillon Bi-Axis Rainbow 3D Carbon, and attached it to an equally colorful leather strap. 
Essentially, Hublot technicians have braided the 49mm carbon case, combining thin bars of carbon and bars of colored composite together and threading them into a mass that, eventually, is milled into a case. And while Hublot has created single-color 3-D Carbon versions of the MP-09, this new model is the first multi-hue example. 
Hublot explains that this technical process, a first in watchmaking, requires that hundreds of colored inserts recreate a natural gradation typically found on watches with colorful sapphires, diamonds or other gemstones. Hublot notes that each insert is cropped with carbon, and polished and adjusted to the nearest micron.
“The new MP-09’s surface is entirely smooth and polished to the touch,” Hublot explains in a press release. “Never before has a watch boasted as many shades of colored composite as the new MP-09.” 
Inside Hublot relies on the HUB9009.H1.RA.B movement with manual winding and a 5-day power reserve. The movement comes with a bi-axial one-minute tourbillon for the first axis and a second rotation every thirty seconds for the second axis. This unique double rotation requires the customized curved case, which displays the tourbillon at 6 o’clock.
Hublot will make eight examples of the new MP-09 Tourbillon Bi-Axis Rainbow 3D Carbon.
Price: $211,000
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