Hublot's Big Bang Meca-10 Street Art uses a concrete composite to form the actual watch case, incorporating cracks, spray-paint motifs, and unique fracture patterns. Cracks are deliberate and filled with glow-in-the-dark paint that shifts color in daylight, darkness, and under ultraviolet nightclub lighting, creating three distinct visual modes. The cement is mixed with polymers, resin binders, and a bio-based epoxy resin that alters curing and pore formation, improving durability compared with raw structural concrete. The material choice influences weight, texture, and skin feel. Each case is one-of-a-kind due to natural fracture variability, while design balances aesthetic grit with protective engineering.
"The result is four watches that look like someone ripped pieces of graffiti-covered urban architecture and strapped them to your wrist. Designer: Hublot The idea sounds absurd until you see the execution. The cracks in the surface aren't flaws. They're designed that way, filled with glow-in-the-dark paint that shifts color depending on whether you're standing in daylight, darkness, or under the ultraviolet lights of a nightclub. One watch becomes three different visual experiences depending on where you take it."
"Technically, it's a concrete composite rather than the stuff you'd pour into a building foundation. Hublot mixes actual cement with polymers and resin binders, so calling it a "concrete case" isn't wrong, but watch nerds will correctly note that raw structural concrete would crumble the first time you bumped a doorframe. That said, the material still chips, cracks, and absorbs moisture in ways that make it seem like the last thing you'd want wrapped around delicate mechanical parts."
Read at Yanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
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