Art Meets Music – Hublot’s 2019 Ultra Recap

We all get into watches for different reasons. Maybe it’s a love of mechanics, an interest in precision or an appreciation for centuries-old decorative techniques. What I find most interesting about watches is that it brings together people who really have nothing else in common but watches. Hell, take the city of Nyon and Miami as an example.

myswitzerland.com describes Nyon as a quote “spick-and-span little town”. I don’t know about you but I wouldn’t exactly call what is arguably the party capital of the USA, Miami, a spick-and-span little down. Yet the two have more in common than meets the eye.

Founded in Miami in 1999, it was only a matter of time before Ultra looked abroad, running electronic music festivals all over the world. Singapore included. For these past three years, Nyon-based Hublot has partnered as the official timekeeper of Ultra in Singapore, uniting three towns (Nyon, Miami and Singapore) over one weekend of back-to-back acts from the world’s best EDM DJ’s.

This year Hublot brought together ambassador (and designer of the Sang Bleu II) Mr Maxime-Plescia Büchi, and Singapore’s very first friend of the brand, Mr Manfred Lim or better known by his moniker, MYRNE (For more on that click here).