SIHH 2019: The Hublot Classic Fusion Chronograph Orlinski Ceramic
Hublot has teamed up with famed French pop artist, Richard Orlinski for a second iteration of its Classic Fusion Chronograph
By Laura McCreddie-Doak
Sports stars are, by and large, a watch brand?s default celebrity category when searching for ambassadors. From tennis and football through athletics, golf and even triathletes (thank you, Breitling), there is no sport without a sponsored wrist in it somewhere.
Hublot is one brand that casts its net a little wider ? in the past it has collaborated with street artists, tattooists and concert pianists. And now it launches its second collaboration with renowned Pop-art phenomenon Richard Orlinski.
Orlinski, whose moniker of ?the sculptor who breaks the rules? makes you wonder whether he should have teamed up with a certain Le Brassus-based brand instead, is a Parisian sculptor ? now with a sideline in music ? who, in 2004, devised his Born Wild concept. It claims to explore the relation between instinct and civilising emotional forces by creating boldly coloured sculptures of animals in heavily faceted materials such as stone, glass and aluminium.
One of his most iconic pieces, and arguably the one that started it all, is a crocodile in a very intense red; a red that just happens to be the same as one as a ceramic Hublot had been working on and which debuted at Baselworld last year in the form of a Big Bang Unico case.
Four years in the making, creating a ceramic in this particularly vibrant shade was only possible thanks...
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