Hublot Teams with Cigar Maker to Create King Power Arturo Fuente
Fine cigars have much in common with fine watches �� luxury products with romantic heritage, handmade by skilled craftsmen, appreciated by connoisseurs �� and now Hublot has created a timepiece that ties the two together together in a significant way �� the new King Power Arturo Fuente edition, developed in collaboration with one of the world’s most popular premium cigar brands.The Arturo Fuente cigar company, founded in 1912 by Cuban immigrant Arturo Fuente, Sr. in Tampa, is one of the top purveyors of hand-rolled cigars outside of Cuba, producing around 3o million cigars per year at its factory in the Dominican Republic. The most famous of these is the Fuente Fuente Opus X, the first Dominican puro (a cigar in which all the tobacco is of the same national origin) and one of the world’s most sought-after cigars. In its press release announcing the new watch, Hublot compares the master torcedors who roll the Opus X in a dedicated room of the Fuente factory to its own expert wa

Dubai Watch Week: Reference Of The Middle East
Dubai is like no other city in the world. It is like no other city I know. I realized this fact mere minutes after arriving in the region which today is so legendary in the watch industry. The things most people say about Dubai are mixed with absolute truths along with a lot of (what I've now learned are) misconceptions. I'm writing this report after my first time in Dubai, coming as a guest of the Seddiqi family to experience the first annual Dubai Watch Week.If you've been in the watch industry for any time at all, you've heard of the Seddiqi Group. The family-run business has a reputation that precedes it around the globe, with admirers knowing them as the watch people in Dubai. It might be easy to imagine them as entitled Emirati elites, or rich real estate moguls who sought diversification through selling watches & jewelry, but just the opposite is actually true.The now-deceased, most senior Seddiqi began with a very modest station in life as part of a fisherman family �C com

Hublot Classic Fusion Watches
How do you create a classic? The statement in and of itself shouldn't make sense as classic things develop over long periods of time. Such "instant classics" are merely good designs that appeal to many people. What I am talking about is literally making a bona fide classic in the time it takes most people to simply develop a product. I can't say I fully understand how, but Jean-Claude Biver at Hublot has turned the Big Bang watch line into a classic over the period of just a few years - but he did.In 2004 almost nobody had heard of Hublot. Suddenly a short time later we see the birth of a phenomenon. Literally the 'big bang' of the Big Bang. Now, about 5 years later after the product launched, you couldn't count how many Big Bang models there have on the fingers of all the people at a crowded party. What each new watch had in common was a certain pure sense of connection to each other. They each had the same distinct DNA, and the brand forced the core design in the realm of being a cla

My watch issue resolved...
Got a call from ECT and was told the watch has been running flawlessly since they got it... Of course I was baffled cuz it was NOT working for me. Serg told me to give it a good winding, which I did, and still nada... Idk what happened, but it's back and running spot on as it was before the stoppage.Any thoughts on this? I'm NOT losing my mind, it did stop, and wouldn't start back up.

PO 42mm weight : is it really unbearable ??
Unfortunately my relationship with the amazing IWC Galapagos is not working as expected so I've decided to put it for sale and go back to a more simple watch,just plain steel,time and date.I already own a Sea Dweller,wich I admit it took me quite a bit to get used to it's weight. I'm finely tuned with it now and I barely remember it's there,do you think I may noticed the further weight increase wit the PO (42mm,bracelet) ??A lot of enthusiastic reviews on the web about the PO,but the weight issue is something always mentioned.Wrist test at ADs has been done several times,but you know the feeling...when you are at an AD most of the times emotions take over and everything seems perfect....