Hublot Unveils New Novelties At LVMH Watch Week 2022
It’s been an exciting week as the highly-anticipated LVMH Watch Week has officially started. A week dedicated to the LVMH Group’s four watchmaking Maisons, LVMH Watch Week welcomes watchmaking professionals, experts, and industry tastemakers into the wonderful world of watchmaking, debuting the latest and greatest. For Hublot, this year marks a return of bespoke classics with a modern upgrade and select new novelties worth noting.
TIME ONLY: FOR THE FIRST TIME, THE BIG BANG INTEGRAL IN 40 MM
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For the first time, Hublot has featured three pieces, three hands, three materials with just one diameter: 40 mm. This is a first for the Big Bang Integral—and an exclusively sleek design.“No-one was expecting it, so of course, we did it: a Big Bang Integral that is more compact, vibrant, and powerful than ever, at the same time as being more refined than any of its other timepieces,” explains Ricardo Guadalupe, the CEO of Hublot. “It has been a true exercise in watch design, retaining our aesthetic and technical grammar but in a totally new format for us. We pulled off the challenge by creating a Big Bang Integral, which once again proves its versatility and modernity!”
BIG BANG ONE CLICK 33, 39 AND 42 MM
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For a more trendier yet sophisticated approach, the Big Bang One Click 33s reveal their many facets and come with a new luxury of silky bracelets in a range of vibrant colors. “Hublot excels in flouting conventions, perfectly matching materials that are rarely seen together or have no natural affinity. It’s been a very long time since timepieces were synonymous with austerity. Precision is the common denominator of Haute Horlogerie and jewelry. The Big Bang One Click combines the best of both worlds by giving you the freedom to match your jewelry with your look,” says Guadalupe.
THE BIG BANG UNICO GOLF, ORANGE CARBON EDITION
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Inspired by renowned American professional golfer Dustin Johnson, the Big Bang Unico gold watch—the first mechanical golf watch with aperture display—is back, but this time in orange carbon. Designed for the modern golfer, the watch is equipped with an exclusive shot-counting mechanism. “The combination of this great sport, this great champion, and this great mechanical golf watch continues to excite us, and we’re very proud to introduce this new version of what has become an icon in golf and in Swiss watchmaking,” explains Guadalupe.
THE MAGIC OF INKED TIME: THREE NEW MODELS OF BIG BANG SANG BLEU II
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The Hublot x Sang Bleu collaboration continues, with three new Big Bang Sang Bleu II iterations. In the 7th year of collaboration, Maxime Plescia-Buchi chose to apply his ink to two iconic materials born from the Hublot Art of Fusion—Magic Gold and ceramic. We love these long-term collaborations, which allow us to combine, experiment with, and transpose our expertise and our vision to develop them and push them to new limits,” reveals Guadalupe. “Our ‘scratch-resistant’ materials engraved with the indelible lines of the Sang Bleu geometry imbue with even greater meaning the messages he conveys through his art: perfection, balance, precision, inalterability, and irreversibility.”
THE RETURN TO YELLOW GOLD
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Last, but certainly not least, Hublot returns to its heritage. Six new Hublot pieces were exclusively unveiled at LVMH Watch Week that recaptured the original essence of the manufacture: the fusion of gold and rubber in a sporty chic aesthetic, at a time when, over four decades ago, the concept of the sport chic watch didn’t even exist.
