“Key of Time”
The first watch that shows “your” time according to “your” choice
The MASTERPIECE collection is dedicated to watches with complications and extraordinary movements, the fruit of the most advanced research in mechanics and engineering. This new collection was made possible by the integration in 2010 of a team of 30 top-level Hublot employees entirely dedicated to Grandes Complications. The first piece in this collection, the MP-01, was presented in January 2011. It was a tonneau-shaped titanium watch with a chronograph movement featuring a 10-day power reserve thanks to its three barrels operating in series, produced in just 100 pieces.
On the occasion of the Basel Fair 2011, we present the second part of the MASTERPIECE collection: the MP-02 Key of Time.
With the advent of digital civilization, the abundance of information has to some extent taken over from material abundance. All these sources of information, not always hierarchically ordered, confront us with a world of continuous solicitations. We go from fascination to anxiety, from joy to disappointment or sadness in the space of a fraction of a second… In this unlimited abundance, what is the intangible data? The one that keeps getting scarcer? It’s Time. Often defined today as the true luxury, time is nonetheless an abstraction: time that passes too quickly…. time that never ends….
What if a watch gave you the mechanical ability to manage the passing of time? Really manage your time? Thanks to a three-position crown, the mechanism driving the MP-02 Key of Time allows you to “modulate” the speed at which the hours and minutes pass according to your desires.
Position 1: Want to savor every second of the passing time? The speed of the watch hands slows down: this allows time to be divided by 4, so that 1 conventional hour is displayed as a quarter of an hour according to the time given by the MP-02 Key of Time.
Position 2: Do you want to “be” on time? The hand speed is normal and the time remains “standard”: one conventional hour is equivalent to one MP-02 Key of Time hour.
Position 3: You want to make the time go by as fast as possible? The hands speed up, multiplying the time by four. Thus, a conventional quarter-hour is displayed as an hour according to the indication given by the MP-02 Key of Time.
In short, thanks to the Key of Time, you can make pleasant moments last four times longer and reduce painful ones by the same amount, while still having the latitude, at any time, to “go back” to the real time. Three different indicators positioned in a star shape on the dial each indicate the speed of the current time, to avoid any confusion. This complex mechanism can remain in position 1 or 3 for an indefinite period of time, and with a single gesture, return to position 2, to see the hands reset themselves to indicate conventional time. This performance is made possible by a genuine “mechanical memory” built into the movement. In addition to this exceptional complication, the MP-02 Key of Time boasts a vertical, flying tourbillon cage with the distinctive feature of indicating the seconds on its edge.
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