With a bold new store concept and a slew of horological blockbusters, perfect Hublot replica watches continues to push the boundaries even as the broader watch market softens. Hublot CEO Ricardo Guadalupe gives us the lowdown.
If you are a watch buyer who’s tired of having to peer at timepieces through glass cases while shopping, the new Hublot store concept was created with you in mind. Called the Free Access Display, the concept places many of the Swiss luxury brand’s timepieces in the open, nestled in nooks atop display cases. This allows customers to look and feel the AAA UK Hublot fake watches freely.
First introduced in top 1:1 replica Hublot watches‘ Omotesando boutique, this setup now makes its Southeast Asian debut at the brand’s store at The Shoppes at Marina Bay Sands. Here in June for the reopening of the boutique, Hublot CEO Ricardo Guadalupe shared in an interview with Prestige, “A boutique should represent what the brand is about: the art of fusion, innovation with tradition, luxury… We believe that to have glass counters is something of the past, and the new way of showing watches is giving the customer direct physical access to the watch. It also represents how we always want our customers to have a unique experience with us.”
Not all timepieces, unsurprisingly, will be openly displayed. One of the novelties visitors should not expect to find within easy reach at the store is the Arsham Droplet, a pocket watch designed in collaboration with celebrated American contemporary artist Daniel Arsham. It’s not just because of its six-digit price tag, but because of its relative scarcity: just 99 pieces of this water droplet-shaped horological object will be made, with probably just a handful eventually making its way to collectors here.
Housed in a case made of two domed and highly curved sapphire crystals, as well as titanium and rubber, the Arsham Droplet is also known as MP-16. The term MP stands for masterpieces, and is the name given to the Swiss brand’s most innovative and complex timepieces.
Guadalupe, who has headed Swiss made Hublot copy watches since 2012, elaborates, “MP is our laboratory of ideas, where we have no rules. When Daniel told me he wanted to reinvent the pocket watch in a modern way, I thought it was brilliant. Hublot being Hublot, if we came out with a traditional pocket watch, nobody would want it. But as an object that can be used as a pocket watch, a pendant or an object of art on your desk, it is very interesting.”
In recent months, Hublot has presented a number of new MP models: at LVMH Watch Week, it unveiled the cheap 2024 replica Hublot MP-10 Tourbillon Weight Energy System watches, a rectangular timepiece with rounded edges and a unique self-winding system powered by two freely moving linear weights. It is topped by a piece of curved and unusually shaped sapphire crystal that is the brand’s most complex to date. Forming sapphire crystal in unusual shapes is a challenge because the material is hard yet brittle, making it difficult to cut and prone to shattering while being worked.
At Watches and Wonders Geneva in April, Hublot’s launches included the luxury fake Hublot MP-11 Power Reserve 14 Days Water Blue Sapphire watches – one of its existing blockbusters powered by a seven-barrel movement that gives it a 14-day store of energy, but in a new case made of translucent sapphire crystal in baby blue.
What can one make of this focus on high-end timepieces at a time when broader watch sales are tapering off, to say the least, following record highs during the pandemic years? “These are what we call talking watches,” says the forthright CEO. “People talk a lot about these watches, which helps to create a sense of aspiration for the brand, but in the end, a lot of what we sell includes three-hand watches in titanium and rubber.” That said, while its entry-level best China Hublot Classic Fusion replica watches might be its bread and butter, Hublot’s high-end pieces are not short on takers: locally, we hear, the demand for the MP-10 exceeds supply.
In fact, Guadalupe says that the brand had not quite planned to launch three new MP models this year (“normally, it should be one per year”). The simultaneous launches occurred partly because the Swiss movements super clone Hublot MP-10 watches took such a long time to realise. Aside from the development of its unique, dual linearweight movement, its highly curved and shaped sapphire glass was a challenge to construct. Figuring it all out took the brand more than five years.
These creations, among others, showcase how high quality UK Hublot copy watches is one of the leaders of the pack when it comes to advanced materials such as sapphire glass and high-tech ceramics – which the brand has produced in an array of colours and shapes. Seems exhaustive, but there is still much to explore, says Guadalupe. “We have our (proprietary alloy) Magic Gold, which is gold and ceramic. But tomorrow, we could have platinum-ceramic or aluminiumceramic. We can imagine rainbow-coloured sapphire crystal. We might have fluorescent ceramics. There are still many things that can be done.”