The top replica Hublot MP-17 MECA-10 Arsham Splash Titanium Sapphire watches is not only a mouthful, but, I guess, an eyeful, too. It brings me once again the fun challenge of writing about a watch I feel little attraction to. Why? Because I often remind myself that just about every detail on just about every watch came to be thanks to the careful consideration, taste, and decision-making of one or more people who, ideally, have worked a lot to make the thing into something they themselves approved of and liked. I say this mantra every time I see a watch that I immediately dismiss as “meh, not for me.”
If you look back at my past articles, I make no secret of my soft spot for some more outlandish 1:1 fake Hublot watches — just look at this mind-bending sapphire Spirit of Big Bang, or perhaps my all-time favorite, the Sang Bleu II Ceramic Chronograph that I wore and reviewed four years ago. Oh, and I’m absolutely in love with the 2025 Summer Big Bang in what I’d call Gulf colors. The Arsham is a bit different, in every way.
In a sense, it is more restrained, more organic than those that I mentioned. I can even imagine some calling it more “artsy.” Designed by American artist and, of course, Hublot Ambassador Daniel Arsham, the MP-17 follows the MP-16 that was a droplet pocket watch and desk clock — which also did not appeal or make sense to me at all, so both Arsham and I seem to deliver in terms of consistency there. Nevertheless, I am told the MP-16 was a smashing success, and neither my odd taste nor my ego will keep me from admitting that Hublot and Arsham deserve all that success.
Both the MP-16 pocket watch and this new MP-17 MECA-10 watch appear destined to hit the spot with the mega-rich art collector scene, where minds shatter and hearts break when multi-million-dollar art pieces can only be carried and shown off on phone screens while they remain firmly at home. Hublot, a decades-long partner of modern art and artists, is happy to team up with some of the hottest artists of our time to create wrist-objects art collectors can wear and proudly show off to their peers. Just like the pocket watch, the UK best replica watches is also decidedly unlike a normal timepiece, leaving no room to mistake it for a regular or classical luxury item.
Even in a crowded art gallery or at a packed gated-community house party, the MP-17 is guaranteed to stand out. The dial (not that we can truly call it that) is of a shape so odd that it attracts the eye — it looks like a heavily damaged watch, not unlike a Cartier Crash that’s been in a fiery car wreck and melted. The mind is also capable of fantastic calculations and realizations subconsciously: I am sure the fact that the minute hand is too long to fit within the confines of the dial is a simple geometric truth that will affect even those who might be able to put into words what is so unnerving or odd about this otherwise organic shape. For something that looks so natural, it is mind-boggling to think that it does not appear to fulfill its most basic task — i.e., allow the minute hand to track the dial.
Track the dial it does, as the super long and robust minute hand — a show of force to those watch enthusiasts who understand how powerful a movement it takes to move such massive hands — neatly tucks in between the gray-turquoise flange ring of the dial and the sapphire bezel. Just look at the image above to see how that happens. Still, as I said, the shape stands out as it goes against the very basic geometries of a watch dial that is wired deep into our brains. Playful, but also clever stuff.
On the wrist, the buy copy Hublot MP-17 MECA-10 Arsham Splash Titanium Sapphire watches wears surprisingly small. While haters (for clicks and views) are still going to hate, Hublot actually is a savvy and smart company — one that sometimes dictates, sometimes anticipates new trends. Watches have been getting smaller and smaller, and Hublot, the definitive large-watch brand, has recognized this major shift in public taste early on. It made its UNICO movement smaller so that it could make not 45mm but 42mm wide watches that remained proportionate (between diameter and thickness).
Now, it has created a smaller MECA-10 with the HUB1205 that is 6.8mm thick and 33.50mm wide (used to be 35.2mm), but still delivers that stonking 240-hour (10-day) power reserve. Hublot reconstructed the power reserve display and also the balance wheel, balance bridge, and also completely new is its fine adjustment system when compared to the HUB1201. It has to be said that Arsham really pushed the MECA-10 to its limits in the sense of packaging: The case appears to be shrink-wrapped around what is a wide- and robust-looking caliber with those long, horizontal bridges and massive wheels.
Speaking of the case, the Swiss clone Hublot MP-17 MECA-10 Arsham Splash Titanium Sapphire watches is clad in shiny microblasted titanium and sapphire, measuring 42mm in diameter and 15.35mm in thickness, with a water resistance rating of 50 meters. The bezel is, I believe, unlike anything I have ever seen: It is a polished and then laser-textured dome of sapphire crystal. Hublot is an expert when it comes to sapphire — it grows its own blocks of the super hard material in-house, on the ground floor of its Nyon manufacture. While sapphire is extremely hard and thus very difficult to machine or decorate, it is also rather “tense” and brittle if milled or modified without the necessary know-how and care.
The translucency of the bezel reveals the titanium base and lends the sapphire crystal front a titanium-like color. In other words, the MP-17 hardly ever appears as a clear sapphire or or metal (steel) colored watch — only when light and the viewing angle come together in a way that reflect away from the titanium base is when you get a less muddy impression. This is not a bad thing at all, it is just to say that, despite the sapphire crystal front, the MP-17 looks warm and muddy, as titanium tends to do. At this point one might take it for granted, but it’s worthwhile to recognize just how consistently well Hublot manages to color its movement plates and bridges to match the color of the case — whatever that may be, from bright orange to sapphire-covered titanium. That in itself is no small feat, and some folks must have worked hard to speak the language of movement surface coatings so fluently. Because designing a watch is one thing — executing it to a tee is another.
All in all, the cheap replica Hublot MP-17 MECA-10 Arsham Splash Titanium Sapphire is a very clever watches with loads of special, unique, and bespoke elements that are fun to explore and think about — even if you, like me, are yet to fall for this mix off odd shapes, textures, colors, and styles. To its credit, the MP-17 looks outlandish and instantly recognizable while taking on a very compact and comfy-to-wear form factor — and achieving that takes a fair bit of confidence both from its conceiving artist and the executor.
