Hublot MP Collection watches

The Hublot MP Collection is home to the MP-05 LaFerrari. Hublot developed the watch in parallel with Ferrari's LaFerrari hypercar, working alongside the Ferrari teams, and showed the first version at Baselworld 2013: a black PVD-coated titanium case under a shaped sapphire crystal that recalls the car's outline, made in 50 numbered pieces. Hublot is Ferrari's official partner in high-end watchmaking, and the MP-05 is styled as the LaFerrari's engine bay, with the movement in the place of the engine.

The movement is the point. The hand-wound HUB9005 has 637 components and 108 jewels and runs at 3 Hz from 11 barrels coupled in series down the middle of the watch like a spine. They give a power reserve of about 50 days, which Hublot presented as a world record for a hand-wound tourbillon wristwatch. Hours, minutes, seconds and the power reserve are read from anodised aluminium cylinders, and the regulating organ is a suspended vertical tourbillon with a 14.5 mm cage. The crowns are hidden: the winding crown sits under an insert in the centre of the case top, the setting system under the case middle on the wrist side, and the watch comes with its own tools for winding.

The editions differ in their cases. The MP-05 LaFerrari Titanium All Black (905.ND.0000.RX) and Titanium Yellow (905.NX.0001.RX) are titanium versions, each limited to 20 pieces. The MP-05 LaFerrari Sapphire (905.JX.0001.RT), a 2016 edition of 20, puts the movement, here the HUB9005.H1.PN.1, in a transparent case assembled from seven pieces of sapphire, so the barrels and cylinders show from every side. Like the other MP-05s, it is water resistant to 30 m.