Hublot’s Newest Big Bang Integral Tourbillon is Sapphire from Stem to Stern
Hublot’s expertise In making watch cases out of sapphire is, at this point, beyond reproach. The Nyon-based manufacture was the first watch manufacturer to produce such cases on an industrial scale, in 2016, and has remained a pioneer in that field during the five years since. “But what,” aficionados of such innovations might ask, “has Hublot done for us lately"” The answer came last week at the Watches & Wonders virtual watch fair: “How about an entire watch ? case and bracelet ? made out of sapphire"” Here’s a closer look at the Big Bang Integral Tourbillon Full Sapphire, a revolutionary timepiece in which the materials are just the tip of the iceberg.
The watch melds two of Hublot’s most noteworthy developments of recent times ? its new “Integral” case construction with an integrated bracelet, which debuted in last January’s Big Bang Integral chronograph models, and its recently launched automatic tourbillon movement, Caliber HUB6035, which took its opening bow in a trio of Big Bang models last year, including a showcase piece with an orange-tinted, translucent sapphire case. The latest incarnation of Hublot’s first self-winding tourbillon also finds itself housed in a case made of sapphire, this one fully transparent, made up of no fewer than 37 separate components, all painstakingly machined from the material, which is traditionally used solely for the crystal of a watch....
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