magnificent timepiece

• Posted by Admin on November 19th, 2010 filed in Uncategorized
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In 1994,there was an accident during an F1 race in Italy. The Brazilian driver Ayrton Senna died at that time. I believe he was an excellent driver. Almost all people who love racing know him.

Recently, to raise money for charity via the Instituto Ayrton Senna, this event was held in his honor. Hublot, the official watch maker of Formula One was there to provide two new limited edition timepieces. The event was a debut of a new documentary film about his Senna’s life called “Senna.”
They are quite funny of the two limited edition Ayrton Senna watches from Hublot. Hublot here has been able to showcase new things. The first of which are all carbon-fiber versions of their King Power watch cases. Often times cases will have carbon fiber inserts, but theses 48mm wide cases are in all carbon fiber, though part of Hublot’s typical sandwich construction. This in a sense is Hublot’s answer to Audemars Piguet’s forged carbon cases on some of their Royal Oak Offshore watches. The bezels are in matte ceramic and made to look like disc brakes,while the cases are carbon fiber. The screws and crown are PVD black titanium.

There will be two Hublot Senna watches. The first is the “Hublot King Power Ayrton Senna.” In almost all black, the watch is 48mm wide with a black Nomex strap, and yellow elements in the hands and hour indicators. The skeletonized dials shows off part of the HUB4247 automatic movement – which is neat. It is still easy to read given the large applied hour indicators,despite the skeletonized interior of the dial. The movement has the time, split second 30 minute column-wheel based chronograph, and a power reserve indicator. Hublot placed Senna’s signature in yellow, right over the subsidiary seconds dial. The watch is extremely cool looking with 500 pieces available.

I really do expect to checking out these all carbon fiber Hublot cases. I am curious as to just how light they are. These pieces also seem to have very intricate pushers. The execution of the piece is very thorough, and somehow avoids feeling cheesy.

The second of the two limited edition pieces is much more limited and has another interesting quality. Limited to just 10 pieces, the “Hublot King Power Tourbillon Ayrton Senna” has a different caseback for each piece. Here I show you the 10 casebacks if you look at the image gallery. Each one is an image from a different point in Senna’s life from the early 1980s to 1993. Chosen by members of his family specially for the timepieces?the pictures are emotionally rich points in Senna’s driving career. The individual images on the caseback crystal are a nice idea from Hublot, and certainly will add desirability to the piece for Senna and F1 collectors.

The Tourbillon Ayrton Senna is a magnificent timepiece. The yellow strap is also Nomex but here has green and blue stitching. These two limited edition Hublot watches are well done, and the special casebacks on the tourbillon model feel meaningful. Hublot and F1 collectors will be hard pressed to pass these up. I’m sure that some collectors will love this special timepiece.