Rarely has a sybaritic luxury item earned its name so deservedly as has the incredible Hublot One Million Dollar Big Bang watch. Even though this extraordinary, over-the-top Hublot Big Bang timepiece features a flying tourbillon, the clear focus is on the incredible gem-setting, which is nothing short of breathtaking. Nearly ever square millimeter of this Hublot watch’s white gold case, dial, and buckle is covered by a glittering carpet of baguette-cut diamonds, 493 in all.

Remarkably, Hublot has employed the virtuoso mysterious setting technique (”le serti mystérieux”) pioneered by Van Cleef and Arpels in 1933, whereby each meticulously cut diamond is fit painstakingly within a grid so that it appears that no structure holds the diamonds. So demanding is the setting process (which involves no adhesive), that Van Cleef and Arpels demanded that a bench jeweler learning the technique had to be already possessed of 7 years of experience, to which another 4 years was spent learning the Mystery Setting process!

Needless to say, the Hublot One Million Dollar Big Bang watch is an exhaustive opus of the most skilled craftsmanship–more than 2,000 hours are involved in its creation.