RETAILED USD3,500 WHEN NEW
BRAND: AUTHENTIC HUBLOT MDM AUTOMATIC GENTS WRISTWATCH
MADE IN: SWISS BY HUBLOT WATCH CO.
CIRCA/TAHUN: 2000's
MODEL: 1530.1 MDM DEPOSE MODELE S/N 259842
CRYSTAL: CLEAN SAPPHIRE CRYSTAL
MOVEMENT: HUBLOT 21 JEWELS AUTOMATIC MOVEMENT
DIAL COLOR: BLACK
FUNCTIONS: HOUR, MINUTES, SECOND CENTER SWIPE AND QUICK DATE AT 3:00
HANDS: SILVER TONE METAL HAND
MARKERS: RAISED SILVER TONE ROMAN MARKERS
CASING : SOLID STAINLESS STEEL WITH HIDDEN LUGS
LUGS: 18mm
MEASUREMENT: 36mm DIAMETER WITHOUT CROWN and 44mm LUG TO LUG
ENGRAVING ON CASEBACK: HUBLOT LOGO, MODELE, 5 ATM, S/N
CROWN: HUBLOT SIGNED SOLID STAINLESS STEEL
STRAP/TALI: REPLACEMENT RUBBER BAND WITH ORIGINAL DOUBLE FOLD HUBLOT CLASP
SIZE STRAP/SAIZ TALI: 8"
COMES WITH ORIGINAL HUBLOT INNER BOX, EXCELLENT CONDITION, KEEPING TIME AND RECENTLY SERVICED
PRICE: RM7,500 (NEGOTIABLE)
Bried History of Hublot Wristwatch
A scion of the Italian Binda Group dynasty, best known for making Breil watches, Carlo Crocco left the
company in 1976 to strike out on his own and create a new watch company.
Moving to Switzerland he formed MDM Geneve and set about designing a
watch that he named the Hublot after the French word for "porthole". The watch that he created featured the first natural rubber strap in the history of watchmaking. It took 3 years of research to create the strap. Despite failing to
attract a single potential customer on the first day of its debut at the
1980 Basel Watch Fair, the watch quickly proved to be a commercial success with sales in excess of $2m in its first year.
The Jean-Claude Biver era
Carlo Crocco, preoccupied by his own design work and many activities
for the Hand-in-Hand Foundation, a charity helping deprived children all
around the world, set out to look for the man who could oversee his
watchmaking business. In late 2003, Jean-Claude Biver, then president of Swatch Groups's Omega division, met Carlo Crocco, and in May 2004, Biver assumed duties as CEO,
becoming a board member and minority shareholder in Hublot Watches.
Upon his arrival, Biver set about creating a new flagship collection
that was unveiled in Basel in April 2005, with the Hublot "Big Bang"
chronograph. It was an immediate success and orders increased threefold
in one year. A few months later, in November 2005, the Big Bang
chronograph was awarded internationally, receiving the "2005 Design
Prize" in the "Geneva Watchmaking Grand Prix", the "Sports Watch Prize"
at the "Watch of the Year" ceremony in Japan, and the Middle Eastern
Prize for the "Best Oversized Watch" at the Editor’s Choice "Watch of
the Year" in Bahrain. Following the arrival of Biver in 2004, the
brand's sales hit 24 million Swiss francs and by the end of 2006, sales
were bordering on the 100 million Swiss franc mark.
Acquisition by LVMH
In April 2008 it was announced that luxury goods group LVMH
had acquired Hublot from founder Carlo Crocco for an undisclosed fee,
adding to its existing portfolio of watch brands including TAG Heuer.
Hublot WISeKey
At BaselWord 2009, Hublot unveiled a new method of detecting counterfeit watches. Using a WISeKey smart card, the system authenticates watches on Hublot's servers. The system went live in August 2009.
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