Thursday, October 23, 2025

Hublot MP-17 MECA-10 Arsham Splash Titanium and Sapphire Watch

Hublot has announced the latest in its ongoing collaboration with brand ambassador and renowned American artist Daniel Arsham: the Hublot MP-17 MECA-10 Arsham Splash in Titanium and Sapphire. As Arsham's first watch designed for Hublot, this timepiece is a wearable sculpture, its every fluid curve reflecting his creative vision. Housed in a compact 42mm case, it benefits from the next generation of Hublot's smaller, in-house Meca-10 manual-winding movement. The best Hublot replica watches at captainthewatch.is.

 The choice of sapphire (for the matte box-shaped bezel), titanium, and rubber fully embodies Hublot's "Art of Fusion" watchmaking philosophy and lays the foundation for the watch's natural, water-inspired form. The defining feature of the new watch is undoubtedly the striking splash-shaped opening on the dial—a play on the water droplet inspiration from the MP-16 Arsham Droplet pocket watch.

Arsham's perspective on time is central to his design philosophy. In a 2016 TED talk, he explained, "My work is about breaking down the boundaries of time. You can't tell if what you see is from the past or the future." The MP-16 Arsham Droplet pocket watch embodies this concept through its unique form, while the new MP-17 Meca-10 Arsham Splash titanium and sapphire watch focuses on the marks left by time. Its sleek case lines, splash-shaped dial opening, and transparent sapphire crystal components cleverly blend Arsham's artistic vision with Hublot's Meca-10 movement, achieving both conceptual expression and exceptional performance in a wearable design.

At first glance, the watch's design appears to depart from Hublot's classic styling. However, a closer look reveals that all signature elements are expertly retained, including the six H-shaped screws on the bezel and caseback, the distinctive lugs at 3 and 9 o'clock, and the H-shaped titanium folding clasp. Furthermore, Arsham green accents adorn the hour and minute hands, numerals, hour markers, five-minute track, small seconds at 9 o'clock, and the power-reserve indicator at 3 o'clock.

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