LVMH Watch Week: The Hublot Big Bang Tourbillon Automatic Orange Sapphire is a Peach of a Timekeeper
Hublot takes pride in being the first watch manufacturer to make sapphire cases on an industrialized scale, starting in 2016 with the first Big Bang Unico Sapphire, and even greater pride in its leading role in creating new color variations in that difficult-to-machine material, from reds to yellows to blues. For the undisputed headline piece of its 2021 offerings, unveiled during LVMH Watch Week, Hublot introduces an entirely new colored sapphire case, but it didn’t stop there, equipping the Big Bang Tourbillon Automatic Orange Sapphire with an all-new self-winding tourbillon movement with a few sapphire goodies of its own.
Hublot Bug Bang Tourbillon Automatic Orange Sapphire
The watch, limited to just 50 pieces, catches the eye with its 45-mm case machined from orange-tinted translucent sapphire, a world-first material achieved through a manufacturing process that incorporates titanium and chromium. Its finely polished surfaces are accented on the bezel by the six H-shaped titanium screws that are emblematic of the Big Bang collection. The case, which is water-resistant to 30 meters, attaches to an orange, structured rubber strap with lined relief pattern; the strap and the case are equipped with Hublot’s patented One Click interchangeability system.
The new movement can be admired through the polished sapphire case.
The case connects to the strap with Hublot’s One Click system.
A revolutionary case, it follows, deserves a similarly ground...
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