James Robinson
Hublot has just dropped the Big Bang MP-11 SAXEM, once again demonstrating why they are the vanguards of the horological industry when it comes to innovating new materials for wristwatches.The stunningly green case of the new Big Bang MP-11 is hewn from a material that has never been used before in a timepiece's case SAXEM.An abbreviation of Sapphire Aluminium Oxide and rare Earth Mineral, the high-tech material receives its brilliant emerald green colour as a result of the Hublot Manufacture mixing materials such Aluminium oxide, which is the basic component of sapphire, with rare-earth elements such as thulium, holmium and chromium.The outcome of this process is a case material with several benefits. For example, SAXEM is not only far stronger than emerald, it also possesses a much richer and deeper colour than sapphire.Housed inside the revolutionary new case, which measures an impressive 45mm, is Hublot's highly technical Caliber HUB9011, a manually wound skeletonised movement that features no less than seven barrels and a whopping 14 days of power reserve.Speaking about the watch, Ricardo Guadalupe, CEO Hublot said: With this new Big Bang MP-11, Hublot once more asserts its regal mastery of innovation, at both a technical level and in terms of aesthetics. By offering those that seek accomplishment a state-of-the-art material used in very high-tech applications, particularly in satellites, and by combining it with a manufacture movement with levels of performance that will go down in history, we are changing the face of our Art of Fusion.Just 20 examples of the Big Bang MP-11 SAXEM will be created by Hublot, and there's no easy way to say this they're $127,000 USD (roughly 190,000 Aussie dollars). But it is an exceptionally impressive timepiece, and kudos to Hublot for continuing their material innovations.
19.10.19