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Monday, June 10, 2024

HUBLOT – MP ARSHAM DROPLET Titanium Pocket Watch Edition

 

HUBLOTManufacture Piece MP ARSHAM DROPLET Pocket Watch Titanium Limited Edition 2024 
 

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Renowned for its innovative spirit, luxury Swiss watchmaker Hublot, has unveiled a groundbreaking collaboration with acclaimed contemporary artist Daniel Arsham. 

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The result of this visionary partnership is the Arsham Droplet, a revolutionary timepiece that reimagines the classic pocket watch, blending antique form with futuristic materials and production methods. 

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The Arsham Droplet represents an incredible piece of art that can be enjoyed in three different ways: a pocket watch, a pendant or an eye-catching table clock.

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Hublot and contemporary artist Daniel Arsham, known for his unique style of transforming everyday objects into "future relics,” have come together to create this captivating fusion of past, present and future. 
 
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The Arsham Droplet seamlessly unites Hublot's technical mastery and Arsham's distinctive artistic vision, delivering a timepiece that pushes the boundaries of traditional watchmaking.

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Inspired by the organic, fluid forms found in nature, the Arsham Droplet represents a true milestone in the world of horology. 
 
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This collaboration is a testament to the shared commitment of both Hublot and Arsham to creating truly exceptional and transformative experiences that challenge the status quo.

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Crafted from a harmonious blend of titanium, rubber and sapphire crystal, the Arsham Droplet reflects Hublot's unparalleled attention to detail and commitment to innovation.

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Measuring 73.2mm (length) x 52.6 mm (width) x 22.5 mm (thickness), the ergonomic and tactile design fits perfectly in the hand, allowing for a truly immersive and engaging horological experience.

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At the heart of the watch lies Hublot's iconic Meca-10 manufacture movement, which boasts an impressive 10-day power reserve that ensures the timepiece can be enjoyed for extended periods without the need for frequent winding, further enhancing the user's connection with this one-of-a-kind creation.

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Over the past decade, Arsham has partnered with a wide range of brands and notable figures. Fusion is key for him, and his past projects have showcased an ability to innovatively blend art, design, and popular culture. 

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This collaboration with Hublot is a natural extension of his artistic practice, as both brands share a commitment to pushing the boundaries of their respective fields.

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Limited to just 99 pieces, the Arsham Droplet is a true collector's item and a masterpiece of modern watchmaking. With its distinctive rounded drop shape and unparalleled complexity, the timepiece challenges conventional notions of what a pocket watch can be.

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The organic design is complemented by a titanium case and rubber bumpers, reflecting a bold departure from traditional watchmaking norms. 

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Presented with two titanium chains, each featuring Hublot’s patented double "one-click" system for seamless attachment, the timepiece can be worn in multiple ways from a necklace to a pocket watch, or displayed as a sculptural centerpiece on its decorative titanium and mineral glass table stand.

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Featuring a sandwich construction, with two exquisitely crafted domed teardrop-shaped crystals, the open worked titanium case resembles delicate lace woven in a droplet pattern. The side bumpers are in a custom Arsham Green rubber and with the artist’s monogram stamped onto the surface.

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The case boasts a double sealing system with no less than 17 O-ring seals, ingeniously placed to guarantee a perfect seal. The timepiece also displays Hublot's iconic design elements, including the brand's signature six H-shaped screws.

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Incorporating the latest advancements in watchmaking technology, the Arsham Droplet boasts a water resistance of 30 meters, ensuring durability and reliability in any setting. 

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With its exceptional craftsmanship and innovative design, this limited-edition masterpiece is destined to become a cherished collector's item.

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For more information about the Arsham Droplet and other Hublot creations, please visit hublot.com. For more information about Daniel Arsham, please visit danielarsham.com.

==================  DANIEL ARSHAM  ================
 
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Daniel Arsham is a New York based artist whose practice spans fine art, architecture, performance, and film. Arsham’s
iconic works meld the past, present and future, showcasing the malleability and power of nostalgia, often through
references to moments of the late 20th century. Eroded casts of modern artifacts and contemporary human figures, his
works are crafted out of geological material such as sand, selenite and volcanic ash. These materials allow for the
appearance and aesthetic of erosion or archeological, future relics, as Arsham has dubbed them. Arsham has been the
subject of solo exhibitions at the Orange County Museum of Art, Musée Guimet, Paris, France; UCCA Center for
Contemporary Art, Dune, China; MOCO Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; HOW Museum, Shanghai, China; The
Cranbrook Art Museum, Detroit, Michigan; and the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; among others. Arsham’s
works have been exhibited at the National Gallery of Victoria Triennial, Melbourne, Australia; The Athens Biennale in
Athens, Greece; Musée Fenaille, Rodez, Carré d’Art de Nîmes, and Paris La Défense, France; Frieze Sculpture, London,
U.K.; and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, SCAD Museum, Savannah, Georgia, Museum
of Contemporary Art, Chicago, the New Museum and MoMA PS1, New York, USA; among others.

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TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

Model: MP ARSHAM DROPLET Titanium Pocket Watch Edition

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Reference: 916.NX.5202.NK Limited edition of 99 pieces

Case    
Shiny Microblasted Titanium with Arsham Green Colour Rubber Bumpers
Bezel:    Magic Gold, polished
Lower bezel:    Black composite resin
"H" screws    H-Shaped polished and microblasted Titanium Screws
Size: 73.2mm
(length) x 52.6 mm (width) x 22.5 mm (thickness)
Water resistance :   30 ATM (300m)
Crystal:    Sapphire crystal with anti-reflective treatment
Case back:    Microblasted M3 Titanium
Skeleton engraved and printed Arsham Green Colour & Black
Crown Shiny Microblasted and Polished Titanium
Dial   
Skeletonised, Semi-Matte Varnished, Arsham Green Colour
Arsham Index at 12 o’clock, made in 3D in Black / Arsham Green Colour
Semi-Matte Varnished, Arsham Green Colour Hands
Movement   
Hublot HUB1201, Manufacture MECA-10 manual winding
Grey PVD treatment - Luminescent
Green Arsham Colour
Power Reserve Indicator
Frequency (HZ): 3 (21’600 A/H)
Power reserve (hours): 240
Number of components: 223
Jewels: 24

Strap   
Necklace: Full Titanium with Polished Links / Shiny Microblasted
Clasp and One-click Tip
Pocket Chain: Full Titanium with Polished Links / Shiny Microblasted
Carabiner and One-click Tip
Table Stand: Microblasted Titanium / Polished Green Arsham Colour
Sphere and Mineral Magnifying Glass

🔰 Limited Edition to ✅Only ❱❱❱ 99 pieces 

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 🔴 Price: 

  • 80’000.00 CHF💰
    97’000.00 EUR💰
    88’000.00 USD💰
    76’400.00 GBP💰
 New Model - 2024


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Tuesday, January 30, 2024

HUBLOT - MP-10 Tourbillon Weight Energy System Titanium Edition

 

HUBLOTManufacture Piece MP-10 Tourbillon Weight Energy System Titanium Limited Edition 2024 
 

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MP-10 TOURBILLON WEIGHT ENERGY SYSTEM TITANIUM:  HUBLOT OPENS A DOOR TO THE FUTURE OF WATCHMAKING

The Manufacture's tenth MP revisits the fundamentals of watchmaking: no dial, hands or oscillating weight, instead a roller display, a circular power reserve and an inclined tourbillon automatic winding by two linear weights.

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The announcement of a new Manufacture Piece (MP) is always eagerly awaited at Hublot. This MP-10 Tourbillon Weight Energy System Titanium will be no exception. The piece is immediately arresting. With its rounded angles, sleek design and sapphire crystal of an unparalleled complexity, it houses a movement which is no less sophisticated. A fusion of form and substance. The mechanical and aesthetic power are inseparable – one of the key concepts guiding the MP collections.

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And at the point where they intersect, the Manufacture offers a bold reinvention of the classic watchmaking complications. These are avant-garde pieces which are resolutely disruptive in their movement, display and complications. But they are neither concepts nor exercises in style. 

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Like all the other MPs, the MP-10 Tourbillon Weight Energy System Titanium is a complete, accomplished and practical watch that will soon adorn the wrists of a select few collectors.

Limited to 50 pieces

Instinctively, we seek to characterise the piece in the time-honoured way... Firstly through the figures, which make for impressive reading: 592 components, 5 years of R&D, 2 linear weights, 1 inclined tourbillon, a circular power reserve, for a model to be produced in a limited edition of just 50 pieces.

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Next, its indications. Here, things get a little more complicated: The MP-10 has no hands. In their place are four constantly rotating displays: the hours and minutes in the upper third of the dial, combined with an invisible magnifying glass; the circular power reserve in the central third, with a very clear green zone and red zone; and the seconds in the lower third which are indicated directly on the tourbillon cage. It is made from monobloc aluminium, suspended and inclined, and a patent application is pending for this unique mechanical configuration.

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The piece has no dial: Hublot has fused the calibre with the dial. The movement is the face and soul of the watch. The gaze is drawn directly to the mechanism to read the time. The MP-10 features a highly architectural design and a particularly expressive movement built around volume and depth. 

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Yet, this in no way interferes with reading. Instead, it makes it simpler. The time is read from top to bottom, fluidly and naturally. The power reserve is particularly expressive, with a two-tone disc (red and green) set coaxially to the hours and minutes.

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This design eliminates the traditional space constraints, which are usually dictated by a central display in a horizontal plane. The MP-10 can be easily read vertically: hours, minutes, power reserve then seconds. The movement of the eye is fluid and natural. The indications are aligned. They share the same white lacquer typography on black aluminium rollers. For each indication, the current time is read via a red triangular marker.

Reinventing automatic winding

Its winding system follows the same logic. A traditional movement is formed of a flat dial paired with an oscillating weight on the case-back side. However, this type of construction is incompatible with the  MP-10. The piece has no dial or hands, it is not flat, and it is read vertically. So, how is it wound?

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The engineers at Hublot retained the weight principle but verticalised it, just like the movement, then duplicated it. On either side of the central architecture sit two blocks of white gold, arranged on a vertical axis along which they are free to move.

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To prevent them from colliding with the banking, Hublot developed a system of shock absorbers. These two vertical weights engage a rack and are able to wind the movement bidirectionally – an exclusive Hublot development for which a patent is also pending, that gives the MP-10 a power reserve of more than 48 hours. 

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The watch is wound manually via the crown at 12 o'clock, while the time is set using a second crown nestled on the case-back side to preserve the fluidity of the design.

Unprecedented complexity

The exterior is finally on a level with the movement. While the case construction is simple (two pieces, middle and case-back in shiny micro-blasted titanium), the sapphire crystal atop it is Hublot's most complex to date, and combines inclined planes on three axes. 

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The same applies to the integrated rubber strap – also the most refined ever designed by the Manufacture. Until the next MP...

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TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

Model: MP-10 Tourbillon Weight Energy System Titanium Edition

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Ref.   910.NX.0001.RX 

Case 
Shiny Microblasted Titanium
Material:    Titanium
Case Size:   54.1 x 41.5 mm
Case Back:    Open

Bezel Satin-finished and Polished Titanium
Sapphire with Anti-reflective Treatment dial
Water Resistance:    300m/ 30 bar
Dial
Multi-level dial with 3D effect
Hours, minutes, power reserve: Indicated by Anodized Black Aluminium Cylinders.
Seconds Indicated by Anodized black aliminium Fastened on the Suspended Tourbillon
Movement
ture Self-winding Power Reserve and Skeleton Tourbillon inclined at 35°
Caliber:    HUB9013
1 inclined Tourbillon
28.4mm x 31mm x 14.8mm 
Frequency: 4 Hz (28'800 A/H)
Power reserve: 4 hours
Number of components: 592
Jewels: 66

Functions:    Hours, minutes on rollers, seconds on the tourbillon, power reserve indication
Strap 
Black structured rubber strap
Buckle Type:  Titanium Deployant Buckle Clasp

🔰 Limited Edition to Only ❱❱❱ 50 pieces 

 🔴 Price: 

  • 250’000.00 CHF💰
    275’000.00 EUR💰
    264’000.00 USD💰
    253’400.00 GBP💰

 New Model - 2024

 January 8th, 2024 Posted in: 

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Wednesday, January 10, 2024

HUBLOT – Spirit of BIG BANG Titanium DRAGON Edition

 

HUBLOTSpirit of BIG BANG Titanium DRAGON Automatic Special Limited Edition 2024 

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 Hublot takes on a Chinese trinity
A symbol: an eastern dragon also known as the ‘loong’
Two ancient art forms: paper cutting and marquetry
An artist
: Chen Fenwan

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The Spirit of Big Bang Titanium Dragon is a collaboration with renowned Chinese artist Chen Fenwan, and features a stunning 3D silhouette of an eastern dragon, gracefully layered across the dial. Each element, from the hands to the H-shaped screws, is meticulously arranged to bring this mythical creature to life. The dragon, a symbol of luck, strength, and wisdom, is not just a design element but an emblem of the watch’s deep cultural significance.

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Drawing inspiration from the traditional Chinese art of paper cutting, the Spirit of Big Bang Titanium Dragon layers its hands, wheels and H-shaped screws to form a 3D silhouette of an eastern dragon. Hublot presents a rubber strap with a marquetry design for the very first time. 

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Created in collaboration with the Chinese artist Chen Fenwan, this limited edition of 88 pieces is the perfect fusion of tradition and modernity, combining metaphors and symbols in the spirit of Hublot: first, unique, different!

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In the Chinese calendar, 2024 marks the return of the Dragon, which comes around every 12 years. This celestial creature, revered in Chinese culture, is associated with prosperity. A symbol of luck, strength and wisdom, the dragon is also an imperial icon that embodies life and immortality.  Loong is a symbol, an icon, and the universal auspicious meaning is the foundation of  Loong culture.

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Equivalent to the year 4722 in the Chinese calendar, 2024 marks the year of the Wood Dragon. Through artist Chen Fenwan’s paper-cutting expertise, Hublot pays homage to wood through the natural fibres that form the soul and spirit of paper.

So, can you recognise what’s hidden within the dragon?

This piece is a metaphor for the ‘Art of Fusion’ and the art of continually reimagining materials and their areas of expression. 

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A symbol of Hublot’s philosophy, the Hublot creates a different way to interpret times,  through its distinctive features. The components of its pieces: hands, cogs or screws, are positioned in multi-dimensional layers to form a dragon’s silhouette created in paper cut-outs by the Chinese artist Chen Fenwan

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The dragon’s head made up offive layers that alternate between hands, wheels and H-shaped screws, with a body and scales that extend onto the strap. The colours, reflect those of the paper cut-out sculpture created by Chen Fenwan.

A metaphor for the ‘Art of Fusion’

Celebrating the Year of the Dragon, this watch is also a metaphor for the ‘Art of Fusion’ embodied by the eastern dragon. Also known as the Loong, it takes on the features of nine different animals—the eyes of a prawn, the horns of a deer, the mouth of a bull, the nose of a dog, the whiskers of a catfish, the mane of a lion, the long tail of a snake, the scales of a fish and the claws of an eagle. A dragon whose metamorphosis has taken place over several thousands of years. 

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Under Chen Fenwan’s touch, this sacred animal, talisman and totem, celebrates one of the greatest cultural legacies of Chinese art: the art of paper cutting. This is a craft that originated in China around 2,000 years ago, coincinding with the invention of paper. Chinese paper cutting has been on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity since 2009 and is used to express the moral principles, philosophies and aesthetic ideals of its creators. 

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It is used in festivities to honour events such as weddings and births, and paper-cut decorations symbolising happiness and good luck are intrinsic to Chinese New Year celebrations.

Hublot invites Chinese Tradition into 2024 with a Hublot first: a rubber strap with a marquetry design

Hublot has invited Chinese artist Chen Fenwan to combine traditional Chinese “sculpture in the round” with contemporary art, creating a majestic and dynamic loong, which conveys an auspicious atmosphere as it rises to the heavens. This artwork symbolizes the ever-renewing totem of life. Expressing Hublot’s philosophy ‘Be First, Unique and Different.

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In a 42 mm titanium case, Hublot transposes the layered effects of paper cutting into a multi-level dial construction overlaying a base panel with several levels of appliqués that incirporate the aesthetic codes of Hublot’s components.The dragon’s silhouette extends onto the rubber strap, which features a rubber marquetry motif—a first for Hublot. Each of the dragon’s scales is coloured and nano-vulcanised to be integrated into the strap. This delicate decorative operation is carried out entirely by hand and takes around 8 hours per strap. 

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The Spirit of Big Bang Titanium Dragon, offered in a limited edition of 88 pieces, comes with a second, titanium-grey Velcro fabric strap. Tthis Chinese New Year celebration features an HUB1710 automatic movement and power reserve of 50 hours.

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CHEN FENWAN

Chen Fenwan graduated from the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts and currently lives and works between
Guangzhou and Foshan. When she was younger, she was heralded as one of the top upcoming paper artists
in China by the media. Most of her works lie in the language of paper, bringing imagination of narrative on
flexible materials, usually with large scale and multi-dimensional pieces. She excels at combining her personal
experience with universal memories, in which the emotional tension of collective resonance gather to
communicate with a wider audience and inhabit public spaces.
Chen Fenwan was named as one to watch by the Chinese Modern Art Archive (CMAA) in 2019. In 2022, her
two in-site works Hello, Walls and Papercut on the Earth’s Window exhibit in Art Field Naihai Guangdong. In
2021, The West Lake in Vectorial Dynamic was created as a public work through solicitation. One of her
Representatives Lucky Garden participates in the 2021 Chengdu Biennale Exhibition, as well as the ten-year
exhibition of Zhejiang Art Museum in 2019. Infinite has been touring exhibited for 11 times from 2018 to 2021.
In recent years, she has taken "symmetry" as her personal research topic, to continue to her large-scale
artworks such as A Symmetrical Nature series and Jintian in Tianjin, constantly giving new understanding to
stage by way of contemporary paper cutting.

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TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

Model:   Spirit of BIG BANG Titanium DRAGON Edition

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 Reference:   646.NX.6600.RX.CHF24  

Case 
Satin-finished and Polished Titanium
Material:    Titanium
Case Size:   42mm
Case Back:    Open

Bezel Satin-finished and Polished Titanium
Sapphire with Anti-reflective Treatment
Water Resistance:    100m/10 bar
Dial
Multi-level dial with 3D effect, based on the works of artist Chen Fen Wan
Color:   Artistic Dial, Pink, Purple
Luminescence:    Yes
Movement
Self-winding Movement
Caliber:    HUB1710
Frequency: 4 Hz (28'800 A/H)
Power reserve: 50 hours
Number of components: 166
Jewels: 27

Functions:    Hours, Minutes, Central Seconds
Strap
Black Rubber with Dragon Scale Decoration. 
Additional strap: Grey Fabric with Velcro and Black Ceramic Buckle
Material:    Rubber
Color:   Blue, Pink
Buckle Type:  Black Ceramic Folding Clasp

🔰 Limited Edition to Only ❱❱❱ 88 pieces 

 🔴 Price: 

  • 28’000.00 CHF💰
    30’800.00 EUR💰
    29’500.00 USD💰
    25’400.00 GBP💰

 New Model - 2024

 January 8th, 2024 Posted in: Shaped collection Tags: 646.NX.6600.RX.CHF24, , , , , , , ,

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HUBLOT SA – Switzerland
T +41 (0)22 990 90 00
F +41(0)22 990 90 29
International Press Contact: 
Annabelle Galley a.galley@hublot.ch
E: n.krasojevic@hublot.ch
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