SIHH 2019: The Hublot Classic Fusion Chronograph Orlinski Ceramic
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, 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 – Hublot Classic Fusion Chronograph Orlinski Ceramic replica watch 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, glas...