Haute Horlogerie meets Haute Joaillerie on this highly creative timepiece inspired by Takashi Murakami’s iconic smiling flower for Hublot.
The MP-15 Takashi Murakami Tourbillon Only Watch is truly unique – in the number of pieces created and it’s construction. It is literally one-of-a-kind as only ONE has been created. Secondly, it is the only centre tourbillon that Hublot has ever created in its forty-plus years.
In this design, the cannon pinion and the hour wheel had to be pivoted around the tourbillon support by creating a co-axial construction. This was made possible thanks to the central flying tourbillon that is seemingly suspended in mid-air with two hands passing under its cage to indicate the hours and minutes. These hands gravitate towards 12 luminescent indices that echo the colours of the 2023 edition of the Hublot for Only Watch, as well as keeping the exact proportions required by the design so dear to Murakami, and which Hublot R&D had to follow to the letter.
Thanks to its two barrels, the manual movement offers a 150-hour power reserve (almost a whole week) – a very rare feature for such a construction. Mounted in series but on a single plane, these generously proportioned barrels can be admired through the case back which is made entirely from sapphire.
Adding to its value is the unique calligraphy ‘Time of Rainbow’ in Murakami’s own handwriting.
