This week, as part of our on-the-ground coverage from LVMH Watch Week 2025, we’re bringing you regular updates of our favourite new releases from all of the brands exhibiting in Los Angeles.
While you can expect Hublot to save a few of its most crucial releases for Watches & Wonders 2025 (set to take place this April), we’ve seen a handful of iterative new product — particularly in the Big Bang family — that’s worthy of a closer look.
The good news? If you appreciate Hublot’s maximalist approach to watchmaking and flair for madcap materials, these LVMH Watch Week novelties are that… and then some.
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The Big Bang MECA-10 — Now In A 42mm Size
Technically a rework of a cult classic, Hublot’s big shot across the bow at LVMH Watch Week 2025 is this Big Bang MECA-10. Based on a design of the same name first realised by the Maison back in 2016, this open-worked Big Bang reference “makes visible and aestheticizes” a range of engineering that is normally hidden from the wearer’s view.
This latest crop of MECA-10s will be available in titanium, frosted carbon, and Hublot’s proprietary ‘King Gold’ alloy. Depending on case material, pricing ranges between 20,900 CHF — 38,900 CHF. In-market AUD prices are to be confirmed shortly.
The watch’s movement architecture (i.e. its biggest talking point) takes significant inspiration from the 2016 original: featuring a ring-shaped base plate onto which three linear bridges are attached. Except this time around, Hublot has managed to condense everything down into a 42mm case size — making the traditional Big Bang design language wearable for a new audience.
In addition to giving the wearer an unencumbered view of the movement’s various components working in sync, Hublot’s watchmakers have used this setup for the new MECA-10 to apply elevated finishing.
Per the press imagery above, you can see satin polishing and hand-applied anglage: the most visible examples of which are present in the MECA-10’s trio of parallel bridges.
The watch’s cutting-edge aesthetic is matched by its performance. True to its name, the MECA-10 is capable of storing a power reserve in excess of 240 hours — thanks to the use of two superimposed mainspring barrels, and an unusual multidirectional racking system that is used to drive the watch’s highly legible reserve indicator.
The best bit? As far as we’re aware, these new MECA-10s are going into regular production; meaning they’re likely to form the bedrock of similar skeletonised Big Bang releases in years to come.
Big Bang Tourbillon Automatic In Green SAXEM
For all of its polarising design and marketing pushes, one thing that watch enthusiasts can all agree on is that Hublot is one of the industry’s big innovators in the realm of material science.
Having made a huge splash with watches like a fully sapphire crystal encased Big Bang Unico, the Maison is unveiling the Big Bang ‘Green SAXEM’ this week — marrying together an automatic tourbillon movement and transparent “emerald green” case.
The SAXEM acronym which gives the watch its name stands for ‘Sapphire Aluminium Oxide and Rare Earth Minerals’: an oblique reference to its material composition, bringing together sapphire crystal’s practical benefits with the “intense colours and shine” of natural minerals.
Hublot spokespeople have likened the experience of wearing this Big Bang in green SAXEM to that of an emerald gemstone; and while the big allure is certain to be visual, you’ve got to give Hublot kudos for paying as much attention to the watch’s mechanical heartbeat.
Even with the tourbillon, this limited edition manages a very respectable 72 hours of reserve power — the source of this being a 22k gold micro-rotor, which you’ll see positioned at the top of the dial.
