Tag

Hublot

Browsing
iW Middle East News

Hublot and the Almajed Group Open in Doha

Hublot and partner Al Majed Group announced the opening of the new Hublot Doha Vendôme Mall Boutique in Doha’s most prestigious shopping center, Place Vendôme. The new Hublot flagship boutique spans more than 200 square meters and is now ready to welcome clients in a warm ambience infused with the maison’s identity and its cherished “Art of Fusion” concept.

Hublot Doha Place Vendôme Mall Boutique

Designed with contemporary furnishings and pop-art paintings, the space has been crafted to reflect Hublot’s mastery in fusing the traditional and the modern. With this most recent and sophisticated flagship, the brand cements its commitment to become closer to the Qatari Hublotistas and maintain a high standard of service and unique creativity, offering a wide selection of watches from the Big Bang to the Classic Fusion, as well as limited edition models.

Besides celebrating this milestone, Hublot takes pride in being the Official Timekeeper of the first-ever FIFA World Cup to be held in the Middle East and precisely in Qatar. As the Swiss watchmaker continues to embark on the “Hublot Loves Football” initiative, in the coming period, the Swiss watchmaker will be gearing up to welcome residents and tourists alike in its Doha boutiques.

Source: Hublot 

by
Keep Reading
The Watches

Hublot Reprises Shepard Fairey Classic Fusion Chronograph

With its impressive roster of artists assisting its in-house designers and artisans, Hublot in 2022, within its Hublot Love Art initiative, continues to release some of the watch world’s most interesting contemporary designs.

We’ve seen ongoing collaborations with Takashi Murakami, Richard Orlinski and Maxime Plescia-Buchi, as well as a new partnership with multi-disciplinary artist Samuel Ross.

The most recent endeavor finds Hublot again teamed with Shepard Fairey, the illustrator and contemporary artist Hublot first worked with in 2018 for the Big Bang Meca-10 Shepard Fairy Limited Edition.

The new Hublot Classic Fusion Aerofusion Chronograph All Black Shepard Fairey.

The new model, the Classic Fusion Aerofusion Chronograph All Black, is essentially an all-black version of the 2021 Classic Fusion Chronograph Shepard Fairey. 

A Mandala symbol and motif highlights the center of the dial. Its complex, repeating pattern is also reprised on the micro-blasted 45mm ceramic case and on the bezel.

The Mandala, which represents harmony and precious time, still exudes a sense of depth on the newly blackened dial despite its new single-hue caste. As Fairey explains, the symbol is a theme for much of his work. 

“Over the course of my watchmaking partnership with Hublot, I discovered that the Mandala – a recurring theme of my work and an ongoing source of inspiration – lives in perfect harmony and balance within a timepiece and it naturally became the center piece for my collaboration.” says Fairey. 

Backing the intricate dial Hublot fits its excellent Caliber HUB1155, a skeletonized automatic chronograph movement, with its rotor visible through a clear sapphire caseback.

Hublot attaches a classic black rubber strap to the watch, which the watchmaker offers as a limited edition of fifty-two pieces available for sale exclusively in North America. Price: $25,900. 

by
Keep Reading
The Watches

Hublot and Samuel Ross Mesh For Titanium Tourbillon

Multi-disciplinary artist Samuel Ross teams with Hublot to create the Big Bang Tourbillon Samuel Ross, a stylized, hexagonal 44mm watch with titanium honeycomb mesh featured on its sapphire dial, case, case back and strap.

The new Hublot Big Bang Tourbillon Samuel Ross.

The debut is the Hublot ambassador’s first wristwatch built with the Swiss watchmaker, which has teamed with artists for more than a decade under its “Hublot Loves Art” initiative.

Hublot has worked with Ross previously, though not for a watch, when the watchmaker awarded Ross its Hublot Design Prize in 2019 as the artist unveiled a multi-material ‘fused’ sculpture designed to celebrate Hublot’s fortieth anniversary.

On the Big Bang Tourbillon Samuel Ross, the 30-year-old artist combines his signature use of color and geometry to make this lightweight, sporty tourbillon-regulated time-only watch. The watch’s multi-level sapphire and titanium dial is both eye-catching and technically impressive; its honeycomb caseback (below) delightfully mixes geometry and gearing.

Hublot explains that Ross opted for an orange color scheme to represent “energy and optimism” and has directed the color for the strap and accents on the crown and tourbillon bridge and lateral bumpers that protect the case. The bright color frames a grey, satin-finished case and bezel.

Inside Hublot sets its manufacture HUB6035 caliber (see specifications below) that offers an impressive seventy-two hours of power reserve. Hublot will make fifty Big Bang Tourbillon Samuel Ross watches.

Hublot is celebrating the debut by enveloping its Fifth Avenue boutique in New York City in orange. The ‘takeover’ will then be repeated in Hublot stores globally as the watch reaches showcases.

Price: $116,000.

Hublot Ambassador Samuel Ross, wearing the Big Bang Tourbillon Samuel Ross.

Specifications: Hublot Big Bang Tourbillon Samuel Ross

(Ref. 428.NX.0100.RX.SRA22)

Case: 44mm by 13.75mm satin-polished titanium with satin-finished case back and bezel. Water resistant to 30 meters.

Movement: Caliber HUB6035 with self-winding micro-rotor, skeleton tourbillon, frequency of 3 Hz (21,600 vph) and 72-hour power reserve.

Dial: Skeletonized with honeycomb pattern titanium, three sapphire bridges.

Strap: Orange rubber with titanium deployant buckle.

Price: $116,000.

 

by
Keep Reading
The Watches

Hublot Debuts First All-Ceramic Minute Repeater Tourbillon

Hublot extends its already wide-ranging collection of ceramic-cased watches with its first minute repeater entirely cased in the high-tech material. The new Big Bang Integral Minute Repeater Ceramic, a 43mm model in white or black ceramic, joins the firm’s Integral Ceramic collection, which debuted in 2020.

The new Hublot Big Bang Integral Minute Repeater Ceramic, made in black or white ceramic.

Beyond its in-house distinction, the new Big Bang Integral Minute Repeater Ceramic is also the first watch of its kind (a tourbillon minute repeater) made by any watchmaker that has been cased entirely in ceramic, according to Hublot.

Like its brethren in the Integral Ceramic collection, the new watch is made with an all-ceramic case (here at 43mm) and with an integrated all-ceramic bracelet, bezel and case back. And the new watch also is Hublot’s first model regulated by a tourbillon within the collection.

Inside Hublot fits its own existing manual-wind MHUB801 caliber with eighty hours of power reserve. The watchmaker will make eighteen watches in black ceramic and eighteen in white ceramic.

Hublot has placed minute repeating movements into numerous watches in the past, sometimes also paired with a tourbillon. You might recall that in 2014, Hublot received a Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève (GPHG) for its Classic Fusion Cathedral Tourbillon Minute Repeater.

Price: $295,000.

 

Specifications: Hublot Big Bang Integral Minute Repeater Ceramic

References: Black Ceramic (458.CX.1170.CX.YOS, 18 pieces) and White Ceramic (458.HX.1170.HX.YOS, 18 pieces).

Dial: Black matte: Rhodium-plated satin appliques with black SuperLuminova or Grey matte: Rhodium- plated satin appliques with white SuperLuminova. Satin-finished and polished white or black ceramic bezel.

Case: Black or white 43mm by 14.15mm satin-finished and polished ceramic. Water resistance to 30 meters.

Movement: Hublot MHUB8001.H1.RH Caliber Hublot Tourbillon with manual winding cathedral minute repeater, frequency: 21,600 vph, power reserve of approximately 80 hours.

Bracelet: Satin-finished and polished black or white ceramic with titanium folding clasp.

Price: $295,000

 

 

by
Keep Reading
The Watches

Hublot’s U.S. Special Edition is Bronze, Brown and Classic

For U.S. collectors, Hublot offers its 45mm Classic Fusion three-hand date model with a new brown dial and limited edition bronze-cased dress.

The Hublot Classic Fusion 45mm Bronze Brown

The handsome dress model, one of the watchmaker’s most unadorned watches, is simplicity at its core, with a classical time and date display framed by a hand-brushed bronze case and matching bezel.

Strapped to a chocolate brown alligator strap and powered by Hublot’s own Caliber HUB1112 automatic movement, the Classic Fusion 45mm Bronze Brown is available only through Hublot.com to customers in the United States of America. Hublot will make thirty watches with this unusual combination of materials and colors.

Hublot explains that the limited edition launch is meant as “a celebration of the intrepid lifestyles (that were unexpectedly put on hold for so long) and a demonstration of Hublot.com keeping pace with their clients and their adventures and pursuits.”

Specifications: Hublot Classic Fusion 45mm Bronze Brown

(Ref. 511.BZ.3480.LR.ECU21, Limited edition of 30)

Dial: Sunray brown, polished 3N gold-plated applique dial and markers.

Case: 45mm by 10.95mm brushed bronze, sapphire crystal with anti-reflective treatment, brushed bronze with black composite resin bezel, polished 3N gold screws. Water resistance to 50 meters. Micro-blasted black ceramic engraved back with “SPECIAL EDITION” “XX/30” and sapphire.

Movement: Caliber Hublot HUB1112 self-winding, date aperture, 4 Hz (28,800 A/h) frequency, power reserve is 42 hours. Hublot-designed tungsten openwork rotor is black-plated.

Strap: Brown alligator with brown stitching on black rubber, black blushed bronze and black- plated stainless steel deployant buckle clasp.

Price: $13,300

 

by
Keep Reading