De Bethune and HG Timepiece unveiled their unique collaboration around the iconic hourglass by Marc Newson. HG Timepiece – a Swiss company that develops and sells Marc Newson’s timekeeping art objects – had been looking for a technique to blue the nanoballs in his Hourglass for several years, due to various challenges involved. Denis Flageollet experimented in his forge for many weeks until he succeeded in bluing them, and replicating this same blue on 127 million nanoballs. HG Timepiece and De Bethune are limiting this unprecedented series to 36 Hourglasses: twelve 60-minute hourglasses and twenty-four 10-minute hourglasses. An additional, unique hourglass will be added to the collection, thus completing the collaboration.
