The Designers of the Ferrari Monza Help Hublot Embrace Its Curves

Originally published by James Stacey on Hodinkee.

Designed in collaboration with Ferrari's Centro Stile (the brand's in-house design group), the new Hublot Classic Fusion Ferrari GT is a marked departure from the sharply angular and structural design common to most Hublot watches. Designed by the same people behind the jaw-dropping Ferrari Monza SP1 and SP2, the Ferrari GT is curvy, a bit strange, and to my eye a rare example of successful design that overlaps elements from both cars and watches. Available in titanium, King Gold, and a special polymer matrix composite called 3-D carbon, the Ferrari GT is 45mm wide and uses Hublot's in-house UNICO HUB1280 flyback chronograph movement.

On wrist, it sits low, feels great, and looks even better. The chronograph action is lovely and the titanium has a muted look and a lightweight presence that is really only challenged by the more hardcore look of the 3-D Carbon model. A major departure from the standard design language of the Classic Fusion, only 2,000 examples will be produced, including 1,000 pieces of the $22,000 titanium model and 500 each of the $27,300 3-D Carbon and $38,800 King Gold versions. While it feels out of character to be praising one of Hublot's Ferrari watches, I shouldn't be all that surprised that the team behind the incredible SP2 could manage to make a great looking Ferrari-inspired watch.