Hublot MP-01 Titanium Chronograph Review

ED209 provides a detailed hands-on review of the Hublot MP-01, a limited-edition timepiece from 2011. His observations on its unique case design, movement, and overall wearability offer valuable insights for collectors considering Hublot's Masterpiece series. This article serves as an excellent reference for understanding the MP-01's distinctive features and its place within Hublot's innovative offerings.

Following up on the recent post by my fellow moderator Ken, I wanted to share a few pics of the Hublot  MP-01.  This watch was unveiled in 2011 and is limited to 100 pieces.  

The case is satin and sand-blasted titanium with black composite resin.  Initial impressions was that the case design is similar to the tonneau shaped Richard Mille, but upon closer inspection you can easily see the Hublot design cues on the side of the case and especially the lugs.  The case is large at 48mm x 55mm, but as you can see from the wrist shots the angles of the case and lugs makes it easy to conform to smaller wrists. One thing to note is the thickness of the watch.  It is very thick and with all the protruding edges of the case I can only imagine that it would catch on the sleeves if I were wearing a long sleeve shirt.  The edges are not sharp, just a lot of protrusions that I would expect it be a scratch magnet.

The dial is partially skeletonized and has a 3D effect.  It has a lot of things going on with a mesh type layer under the dial between the movement.  It also has triangular frame type dial with integrated hour markers that is satin finished.

Besides the central hour and minute skeletonized hands, your eyes are drawn to the two chronograph subdials at the 2 and 10 o'clock positions.  At the lower half of the dial near the 6o'clock hour marker, there is a subdial for the seconds.   Since this watch is part of the masterpiece collection, I was expecting the movement (particularly the seconds subdial) to be a tourbillon but it's not.  andrewluff had posted  that Hublot did release a tourbillon version that was an LE of 10 pieces and it had a tourbillon where the seconds subdial is located.

The bezel is also made of titanium like the case and has a brushed finish and is accented by 6 signature Hublot H screws.  It has slotted cut-outs on the four corners of the rectangular bezel. The crown is nicely over-sized to make it easy to wind without protruding too far out. 

The MP-01 has the HUB5100 caliber movement which is manually wound.  The three barrels provides an impressive long lasting 240 hour power reserve. The HUB5100 Movement is a mono-pusher column wheel chronograph and is activate by the crown.  My fellow Hublot Moderator Ken has a some nice videos in his prior post on the MP-01 which shows the crown being activated and the rotation of the seconds subdial.  On the backside, the MP-01 has a transparent sapphire crystal that displays the openworked movement with  the balance wheel and a subdial with a power reserve indicator.