A focus on skilled craftsmanship and exquisite materials united French men’s fashion house Berluti and watch brand cheap Hublot replica watches when they first collaborated on a watch four years ago.
Now, the brands have come together again, this time to create the luxury replica Hublot Big Bang Unico Berluti Cold Brown which features a dial crafted from Venezia leather. For creative director of Berluti, Kris Van Assche, it was a chance to add a modern edge to the brand’s heritage leather. ‘There is a very contemporary feel to this watch, a little sports, of course, a little chunky, and I immediately felt this universe would make for a more surprising contrast with our Venezia leather and patina,’ he says. ‘I always push for the Berluti heritage to be discovered in unexpected new contexts.’
In this new Hublot replica with Swiss movement, the Venezia leather in Cold Brown patina – originally inspired by an archive patina and renewed to achieve its warm hue – is inserted between two pieces of sapphire glass, with a cut-out silhouette revealing the movement beneath. In a first for both brands, the leather also forms part of the bezel, meaning like the strap it will develop a new patina over time as it ages.
‘It is an amazing technical feat made possible by the expertise of our watchmakers, designers and engineers, all of whose know-how was required to master the conception of this new bezel,’ adds Ricardo Guadalupe, CEO of Hublot.
It’s not breaking any boundaries to say that Hublot replica watches for sale is a relatively young brand, and that they’re not at all cheap. If you’re someone who insists that their watches have 200-plus years of history behind them with classic proportions and traditional construction methods, Hublot isn’t for you. If, however, you want lines crossed, bold moves taken, and innovation, then the Porthole brand has much to offer. There are few better examples of this than the in-house Hublot MECA-10 movement, with each of its 223 components epitomising modern-day luxury watchmaking.
From a visual standpoint, Hublot MECA-10 replica watches online store with skeleton dial is already a departure from the Swiss traditionalists. You won’t find any Geneva Stripes, engine turning, or hand-engraved balance bridges here. Instead, the skeleton movement displays its mechanical prowess with as much clarity as possible, showing off each part with the knowledge that it was built to be stared at, and scrutinised. The aesthetic benefit of the coated components is that the movement can be colour-coordinated with whatever the watch is, which in current Hublot fake offerings is in black, blue, or king gold. From the display caseback, the organised chaos of the dial is replaced with a clean, clinical display of thin and weight-reduced bridges and gears, giving off a distinctly sci-fi clockwork feeling. The layout of the movement is also quite well thought-out, with the running seconds placed just above the dancing balance wheel, the power reserve display at 6 o’clock for symmetrical numerals, and the top of two vertically parallel mainspring barrels positioned towards the crown, which allows the horizontal ratchet system to slide along the top of the dial beneath the printed high quality copy Hublot logo. There are actually three ways of reading the power reserve on the MECA-10, with the most obvious being the geared wheel with numbers 1-10 representing the days left. Additionally, there’s an opening in the mainspring barrel which will show a red section as the final 48 hours approach. The third way is a bit more subtle, but with enough time spent wearing this watch, you will also be able to guess fairly accurately how much is left by the position of the ratchet. Of course, it’s not all about the looks. By far the most impressive feature of the MECA-10 is its titular 10-day, or 240-hour, power reserve. Achieving this, while keeping the whole movement under 7mm thick, is no easy task. This is especially true considering that the two mainspring barrels are stacked vertically instead of horizontally, which would otherwise increase the diameter of the movement beyond 34.8mm.
With the barrels slimmed and skeletonised, and the watch’s beat rate dropped down to 21,600 vph, we are gifted with the week-and-a-half of uninterrupted ticking. The lowered beat rate may be an issue for some people who want a perfectly smooth sweep, however it’s much less noticeable on the small seconds display than on a centre seconds, and it also has the handy benefit of increasing the service interval to the latter end of Hublot’s recommended 3-5 years.
Hublot MECA-10 Movement
Having been first introduced in 2016, the best Hublot Spirit of Big Bang replica watches with black rubber strap isn’t exactly emerging technology, so it’s a mystery as to why its praises are so rarely sung. Prices for watches powered by the movement begin at $27,800AUD/$19,900USD for the 45mm titanium-cased Big Bang MECA-10. This may explain why they are rarely seen on the wrists of people who aren’t wildly successful professional athletes, but maybe that should change. The only certainty is that Hublot will continue to chase the future of watchmaking, and excel in doing so.
Hublot is switching to an electronic passport and warranty system to authenticate and track its watches using, in part, a system that can identify every piece based on the uniqueness of materials from which they are made.
The system has taken three years of research and development in partnership with KerQuest, which uses artificial intelligence and technology similar to facial recognition to identify AAA Swiss made fake Hublot watches using just a mobile phone photograph.
“Although the technology developed relies on complex algorithms, it is simple and user friendly. A perfect fusion between technological complexity and ease of use,” says Ricardo Guadalupe, CEO of Hublot.
The watchmaker has been working on the development of algorithms in partnership with KerQuest since 2017. The goal has been to develop a technology that need only to recognize the microstructure of the materials that make up perfect Hublot replica watches.
Hublot says each of its watches is as unique as a fingerprint, with even two watches of the same model leaving the manufacture distinguishable thanks to the singularities of their microstructure. The challenge faced was how to read them and process them in a reliable and practical way.
The solution was always at the very heart of the Hublot manufacture, where specially designed optical readers capture invisible details in ultra-high definition.
When a watch is sold, the point of sale activates the warranty using the Hublot-e-warranty application. The photo is sent to the computing infrastructure that will process it and automatically activate the warranty if the piece has been correctly identified.
Once the watch has been recognised and authenticated, the customer receives their best fake Hublot e-warranty through e-mail or even WhatsApp.
This enables them to easily access new services, such as verifying the authenticity of a piece, retrieving the warranty status of a piece, or accessing the Hublotista community.
A digital passport records the watch’s service history, any change of ownership and other details.
The system is part of anti-counterfeiting and lifetime tracing measures developed by Hublot’s parent company LVMH that use incorruptible blockchain records.