Pedro Acosta is the Colombian man that supersizes watches and turns them into coffee table sculptures. At a young age, he developed a fascination for building things and a great imagination while building Legos with his father, an avid car and watch lover. After graduating from college, he wanted to pursue something he would be passionate about and design quickly became his thing. Early in his career, Pedro started designing VIP lounges at FBOs —Fixed Based Operator.

A Fixed Based Operator is an organization granted the right by an airport to operate at the airport and provide services such as fueling, hangar, maintenance, and departure and arrival services for private planes. At that time he started repurposing aircraft parts to decorate these lounges and that’s when he manufactured the furniture for the VIP Lounge within one of the most important FBOs in Latin America, Helistar de Aviación in Colombia.

As fate would have it in a very positive way, serendipity played its cards at the FBO and Pedro Costa ran into Rick De La Croix, the President of Hublot Latin America, CEO of Ares Distributors —the distributor of Hublot, Zenith, Bomberg, Greubel Forsey, Bovet, MB&F and L’épée in Latin America—, and the founder of Bomberg and The Unnamed Society.

Rick De La Croix, Pedro Costa and Jean-Claude Biver

During that encounter and fascinated by Pedro’s work at the FBO, Rick De La Croix asked him to build something special for him. Right there is when Pedro’s creative mind came up with the idea of supersizing a Hublot timepiece and turning it into a coffee table clock. After delivering its first coffee table in the shape of a Hublot Big Bang watch for Rick De La Croix, an identical coffee table followed for Reggaeton singer and songwriter Nicky Jam. For this particular pieces Hublot is fully behind Pedro Costa.

Immediately sparking the interest of watch collectors around the world, Pedro decided to start creating coffee tables after other watch brands like Rolex, Audemars Piguet, Patek Philippe, Breitling, Richard Mille, Jacob & Co., Corum, Roger Dubuis, Chopard, Franck Muller, and most recently with The Unnamed Society and L’Epée. His work is so impressive that even Monsieur Jean-Claude Biver has praised him for his work recreating a Hublot Big Bang Diamonds for the brand.

These true works of art that also happen to keep time are built at the Costa Design workshop that operates with a team of 21 people including Pedro Costa himself out of Bogota, Colombia. A lengthy process that goes all the way from cutting, soldering, polishing, and finishing pieces out of 308 stainless steel —the second most widely used type of stainless steel.

All watch coffee tables are completed by equipping them with a hybrid electro-mechanical movement developed by UK’s finest clockmaker Sinclair Harding. If you read our feature about Jorg Hysek’s ‘ La Colonne du Temps’, then you already know about Sinclair Harding. The movement has a minimum power reserve of ten days after the lithium battery has been fully charged.

When we thought we’ve seen it all, these supersized timepiece coffee tables came out of nowhere to leave us in awe. These tables are the result of a fully artisanal process that involves hundreds of steps with the aid of some heavy-duty machinery that is exclusively used to cut, mold, and fabricate the components to make the case and the movements. The rest of the steps are all done by hand taking between 2 to 6 months to complete a coffee table. A great way and labor of love to pay homage to some of the most iconic timepieces ever made.

Producing between 40 and 45 pieces a year, every single detail of the watch is replicated as a work of art. While tourbillons in these watch coffee tables are running, they don’t play a role in timekeeping nor they are meant to do so. Chronographs don’t work but the timekeeping function of the hours, minutes, and seconds it’s always fully functional as well as the winding crown that is used to set the hands on the coffee tables. Really out of this world to see that the passion that Pedro and his team have for watches makes them go above and beyond to reproduce the smallest details and even the visible parts of the movements as well as all other details of these timepieces, literally supersizing them.

Patek Philippe Nautilus ref. 5990 Coffee Table

The most notable coffee tables they’ve produced include a Hublot Big Bang Diamonds, a Breitling Chronomat, a Roger Dubuis Excalibur, a Patek Philippe Nautilus Travel Time ref. 5990 that is even fitted with a display case back and a central rotor that spins like on the actual watch, a Richard Mille RM 52-01 Skull Tourbillon, an Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore ‘The Beast’ ref. 25721, a Jacob & Co. Opera Godfather and most recently a Rolex Paul Newman Daytona ref. 6239.

The watch coffee tables are delivered in a crate that most of the time looks like the actual box of the watch, they all feature a power reserve of ten days and have a total weight between 75 to 100 kilos —160 to 220 pounds. Pedro Costa is not affiliated with any of the watch brands above mentioned nor their representatives.

Sticker Price $30,000-130,000 USD. If you are interested in purchasing one of these watch coffee tables drop us a line here.