Hublot MP-17 puts a Meca-10 beneath Arsham's splash

In 2024, Hublot and Daniel Arsham introduced the Arsham Droplet, a transformable pocket watch shaped after a drop of water, with a Meca-10 inside. Hublot’s 2025 release calls it the MP-16 Arsham Droplet. The MP-17 followed in Singapore on 9 October 2025 as Arsham’s first wristwatch design for the house. Its splash-shaped dial opening is Hublot’s direct evolution of the droplet.

The case is 42 mm of microblasted titanium. A new, smaller Meca-10, the manual-wind calibre HUB1205, permits that size.

The bezel is the part you notice. It is sapphire, polished and then laser-textured to a frost. Box-shaped rather than flat, it stands above the case like a lens.

A smaller Meca-10 beneath the splash

The movement shows twice: from the front through the splash opening, from the back through the sapphire caseback. Through the splash, it is a grey skeleton with the small seconds at nine and a power-reserve display at three. The hands and scales carry the shade of green Hublot associates with Arsham.

Two barrels provide 240 hours, or ten days. On its current product page, Hublot describes the reserve display as a rack driven by two superimposed discs turning in opposite directions and joined by a spiral spring.

In the dial photograph, the reserve reads only as a small counter.

Frosted sapphire in the photographs

In our November 2025 photographs, the watch is mostly bezel. The frosted sapphire catches light like ground glass and hides the case edge beneath it. The titanium case remains visible as a rim. The watch reads as a piece of frosted glass with a mechanism suspended in its centre.

Six screws circle the bezel, each shaped like an H. The black rubber strap carries Arsham’s monogram and closes with a titanium deployant clasp.

The organic outline of the splash sits against the very regular screws. Hublot calls this combination of sapphire, titanium and rubber “Art of Fusion”.

Price and availability

Production. The official page and the 9 October 2025 release state a limited edition of 99 pieces.

Availability. Distribution as stated in the release of 9 October 2025: Hublot boutiques and authorised retailers.

Retail. $73,000, as of Aug 2026 (official US catalogue, 27 Aug 2026: suggested retail, VAT not included)