It is mid-summer in the Northern Hemisphere, and Hublot is bringing the beach party with two new boutiques in the glitzy French coastal towns of Cannes and Saint-Tropez along the famously glamorous French Riviera, or C^ote d’Azur. You already see where this is going, right? The new boutiques happen to be outfitted with a beachy and nautical design featuring azure blue facades – and the new, simply named Hublot Big Bang Blue limited edition watch in a blue ceramic case thematically follows suit.
Blue remains a popular color for watches, and also the Hublot Big Bang Blue is among the bluest watches out there. It comes in a well-recognized 45mm Big Bang case made out of mostly blue ceramic with polished sides and micro-blasted top surfaces. And in addition it features white composite resin inserts around the sides. Like the case, the bezel can also be blue ceramic polished on the sides and micro-blasted on the top to produce a matte kind of look and finish. The bezel is held in place with polished titanium H-shaped screws. The crown and pushers are all made out satin-finished titanium. Water-resistance is 100m and the watch includes two strap choices: white and blue rubber or white rubber with blue alligator leather.
The dial is skeletonized featuring the usual dial configuration of other Hublot Big Bang watches: running seconds at 9 o'clock and 60-minute chronograph counter at 3 o'clock. The hands and applied hour indexes are rhodium-plated and satin-finished and full of white luminescent material for legibility in low-light conditions. There's an inconspicuous date window at 3 o'clock and surrounding the dial is a blue flange marked using the minutes.
This month, Ball Watches New Watch Clients are introducing their latest version and supplying an exclusive pre-order price for watch lovers to help make the most of. The Ball Engineer Hydrocarbon DEVGRU may be the newest addition to Ball’s Hydrocarbon line-up along with a watch that was developed with direct input within the U.S. Navy’s SEAL Team Six — thus, the title DEVGRU. Like a lot of Ball’s past advancements, you can anticipate solid structure, a tritium gas micro tube light series, along with a sporty design you can take anywhere. But, what has got the Engineer Hydrocarbon DEVGRU so unique is the new patented instance and movement technology which allows the watch to defy a 10 meter free fall without damage.For years, Ball’s SpringLOCK platform technologies has functioned to safeguard their watches from immense force. From the Engineer Hydrocarbon DEVGRU, the machine has been redesigned and combined with a new SpringSEAL for enhanced precision as well as an elastomer ring to protect the movement. More especially, the SpringSEAL is actually meant to shield the regulator assembly therefore it doesn’t change upon impact and subsequently, jetski from the need to re-regulate the movement following a fall. This works together with the elastomer ring — which comes in gray or red — that isolates and secures the entire motion from impact.Compared into most of the other versions in the collection, the Ball Engineer Hydrocarbon DEVGRU is slightly more controlled concerning design. Due to the new technology Ball has executed here, the timepiece is shock-resistant into 50,000 Gs and anti-magnetic into 4,800A/m. Additionally, it's worth taking a peek at the crown, which was also redesigned to help boost the watch’s protective capabilities.
To be truthful, looking at the press photos here, it looks like the Hublot Big Bang Blue’s brushed hands against its skeletonized dial might not be the strongest for legibility – even though Hublot has often been known to get this right. But as they say, telling the time on a lifestyle statement watch such as this is probably only a secondary consideration. Additionally, what you lose in legibility you gain in being able to see the inner workings of the watch. The skeletonized dial means a few of the going train is visible and so is the column-wheel, and seeing those things for action, especially when you activate the chronograph, is pretty cool.
The movement is Hublot's trusty HUB1242, which is used in many other Hublot Big Bang watches. It is in-house-made and is a self-winding chronograph movement with a flyback mechanism. It consists of 330 components, beats at 4Hz, and it has a respectable power reserve of 72 hours. The movement is visible with the watch's sapphire display case back.
While blue dials have been popular for a while now, fully blue watches such as the Hublot Big Bang Blue are naturally less frequent. And despite its name, the Hublot Big Bang Blue isn't the first blue limited edition Big Bang watch – a few of the Hublot Big Bang Unico Italia Independent watches (hands-on here), for instance were pretty blue as well. The Hublot Big Bang Blue is restricted to just 100 pieces, costing $21,500, and will initially be available at Hublot’s “summer boutiques.” hublot.com
