Hublot’s $25,000 Bitcoin Watch Is Perfectly Designed to Help Me Spot Terrible Jabronis

There are lots of annoying telltales of a blowhard, but none quite so insufferable as Hublot’s Big Bang Meca-10 P2P watch. It costs an absurd $25,000, but even if you have all those Benjamins in your bank account, you’re out of luck—this is a watch that can only be bought with cold, hard Bitcoin.

For $25,000 or whatever the equivalent is in Bitcoin, one might think you’d get a lot of hot tech features to justify the cost. After all, the Apple Watch Series 4 is what I thought to be a whopping $500—just two percent of the Hublot Meca-whatever—but at least it can make phone calls, take an ECG, and tell me if I’ve got atrial fibrillation. But no. For 25 grand, what Hublot delivers is essentially a time-challenged Bitcoin fanboy’s wet dream.

First, there’s only going to be 210 of these obscenities made—a reference to the fact that there can only be 21 million Bitcoin in existence. Sure. Also, each…