Hublot - Big Bang Unico Italia Independent
Hublot is launching the new Big Bang Unico Italia Independent, designed in collaboration with the Italian brand, of whom Lapo Elkann is Chairman and Co-Founder. This collaboration has created a case featuring a brand new material, Texalium®, whose design is exclusive to the Swiss watchmaking brand.
By now accustomed to carbon fibre cases, Hublot wanted to go even further in its search for this material, to achieve even more colour variations. Texalium® is unique in that it is aluminium-coated carbon fibre; the great advantage of this is that it can be designed in different colours and has a remarkable brilliance, with all the lightness of carbon fibre.
This new Big Bang Unico Italia Independent is available in two colourways - grey or blue - and is guaranteed to electrify the wrist of anyone wearing it. A 500-piece limited edition of each of these two versions will be produced.
This Big Bang Unico Italia Independent watch also features Hublot's manufacture chronograph movement - the Unico. The engine has been entirely designed, developed, machined and assembled by micro-mechanics, engineers and watchmakers at Hublot. The movement is a flyback chronograph which can be reset at any time, and which is unique in the watchmaking industry, two push-buttons, with date indicator, and featuring a uniquely positioned mechanism with dual coupling and the famous "column wheel" visible on the dial side. Water resistant to 100 meters, the power reserve is approximately 72 hours.
The strap itself is made from denim fabric with grey or black studs, as typically seen on luxury shoes. The strap benefits from the interchangeable "One Click" system, which enables its wearers to choose from a wide range of straps as they like.
Each watch comes in a customised Italia Independent display case, complete with a pair of Italia Independent sunglasses as a bonus gift for Big Bang customers; as high-tech as the watch itself, the frame of these stylish sunglasses is also made from Texalium®.
Hublot - Aero Bang Morgan
Press release - 02/2009
Credit Hublot
On the anniversary of the first century of the Morgan company, Hublot has produced a special Big Bang whose design has been inspired by the AeroMax car: the Aero Bang Morgan.
Jean-Claude Biver presented it today in Malvern (GB), at the jubilee firm's headquarters, in the presence of Charles Morgan.
It was during an encounter between Charles Morgan - the legendary British maker of sports cars - and Jean-Claude Biver, the bubbling Swiss watchmaker, that the creative spark was generated. Being directors of companies attached to tradition and craftsmanship, and being both passionate about elegance and authenticity, they quite naturally decided to form a partnership.
The synergy between Hublot and Morgan is reflected in the same concern for meticulous work and sober, original aesthetics. This complicity is also found in the use and combination of materials, in the sporting vocation and in the craft-manufacturing of their products.
The AeroMax car - a limited series of 100 hand-made cars - has been the inspiration behind the creation of the Aero Bang watch, whose first hundred models have been reserved as a priority for owners of the AeroMax. The ceramic and tungsten Big Bang sports the Morgan logo at 9 o'clock, on a skeleton dial which makes it possible to distinguish the chronograph movement, or to admire the beauty of its "engine"!
AERO BANG MORGAN
Technical data Sheet
Case "Big Bang" 44.5 mm diameter in black ceramic
Bezel Satin-finished tungsten
Crystal Sapphire crystal with anti-reflection interior treatment
Bezel lug Black composite resin
Lateral inserts Black composite resin
Back Black ceramic
Crown Satin finished steel with black rubber insert
Push-pieces Satin finished steel, rectangular with black rubber insert
Screws Titanium
Water-resistance 100 m or 10 ATM
Dial Black sandblasted skeleton cut-out with satin-finished ruthenium-colour index markers and Morgan logo index at 9 o'clock
Hands Sandblasted, ruthenium, chronograph hand with H-shaped counterpoise
Movement Skeleton like self-winding chronograph
Hublot HUB44 SQ calibre
Number of
components 252
Rubies 27
Bridges Sandblasted
Screws Black PVD
Oscillating weight Tungsten carbide with dimpled surface, coated with black PVD
Bottom plate Sandblasted rhodium plated
Barrel With reinforced spring
Escapement Glucydur balance spring
Power reserve 42 hours
Strap Adjustable smooth black rubber
Clasp Black PVD steel
Limited Edition 500 numbered pieces 01/500- 500/500