Artist and designer, Daniel Arsham and Hublot collaborated to create the world’s first sapphire crystal pocketwatch.

Dubbed the Arsham Droplet, this contemporary pocketwatch features a 73.2 mm x 52.6 mm teardrop-shaped case made of sapphire crystal, titanium, and rubber.

The Arsham Droplet can be used as not just a pocketwatch with a chain, it’s also designed to be mounted in a polished green glass sphere, which has a mineral crystal magnifying glass to enlarge the time display when configured as a table clock. Interestingly, the included titanium chain also allows the pocketwatch to be used as a necklace.

Using Hublot’s existing Meca-10 in-house HUB1201 manually wound movement, the Arsham Droplet displays center hours and minutes, as well as small seconds and has a power reserve indicator to track how much of the maximum 240-hour reserve remains.

Hublot gave the hands, hour markers, and power reserve indicator a green luminous treatment that matches the teal-green rubber color used for the case. A total of 17 gaskets were required to keep the pocketwatch water-resistant down to 30 meters.

The Arsham Droplet is available now for $88,000 and is limited to 99 pieces. (Ref. 916.NX.5202.NK)

Learn more at Hublot.

 

Photos by Hublot.