Hublot’s current triumph on the Pink Dot Design Awards reminds us that there’s extra to a very good watch than actions and ending. Hublot received the Pink Dot Award for Product Design for the “ingenuity and distinctive design,” of the MP-10 Tourbillon Weight Power System (we prefer to name this watch the MP-10 WEST. Solid your eyes over any assortment of watches and also you may surprise why the designs should not extra compelling.
By means of distinction, this most up-to-date Hublot MP-10 (it debuted this 12 months on the LVMH Watch Week in Miami) simply stands aside. In fact, the watch is an unimaginable technical innovation, daring to problem that almost all sacred of mechanical watchmaking cows, the automated winding system.
The Pink Dot award itself probably doesn’t pay an excessive amount of consideration to the horological pondering behind the Hublot MP-10 WEST. Extra probably than not, the truth that this watch options no dial and no fingers, and isn’t spherical, makes it the proper timepiece for the Pink Dot jury. Watches, particularly valuable ones, needn’t be slaves to utility and utilitarian aesthetics. Nor do they should get away the flash, regardless of being very unique.
Hublot has already demonstrated a complicated understanding of what watch patrons need, and the model isn’t any stranger to success on the Pink Dot Awards; the Huge Bang Meca-10 Magic Gold took dwelling the Better of the Greatest award in 2017. A very good a part of Hublot’s profitable aesthetics formulation is on present with the MP-10 WEST, which is a radically totally different watch to the 2017 winner. Certainly, it’s fairly totally different from something on the market moreover unique winding programs employed by Corum and Moritz Grossmann.
Pink Dot itself has not mentioned a lot in regards to the winners this 12 months, with some information on the topic being embargoed until August. We look ahead to studying extra about what the judges considered the MP-10 WEST, particularly its not-inconsiderable dimensions; the watch clocks in at greater than 54mm in size, which is successfully the lug-to-lug distance, and we think about this can make the watch troublesome to put on. Now we have not seen this watch in particular person, at The Hour Glass, or at any of the commerce reveals. A restricted sequence of fifty, the MP-10 WEST is extra of an announcement piece than the rest.
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