Hublot and the Big Bang Unico Sapphire Blue and Red

The watches that I present today are beautiful, colorful, precious and with a very limited edition. Let’s start with color: it seems that color knows no bounds for Hublot. He covers the materials, enhances them and makes them unique. Hublot now fuses metals with sapphire to create a blue-colored Big Bang case. It is the first time that sapphire has been coated with this color in watchmaking. The Big Bang Unico Sapphire had already been the protagonist of the sapphire revolution in 2016. A year after this world premiere, the Nyon manufacturer signs another, the result of its constant commitment to innovation, research and development.watch

Although colored synthetic sapphires have existed since 1902,

which is when they were invented by the French chemist Auguste Victor Louis Verneuil, sapphire fusion is complex and unpredictable. Its crystallization process is unstable and it is difficult to obtain sapphires of similar color even if they are produced at the same time. Furthermore, bubbles or cracks may appear in the material which make the final material unusable for the construction of Big Bang speakers. But the main difficulty concerns the size. Until now, colored sapphires did not exceed 2kg.best fake watches

Today Hublot has overcome this technical and chemical limit, developing a complex and expensive process that has made it possible to create a large, transparent and colored sapphire in a perfectly uniform way. Hublot fuses aluminum oxide (Al2O3) – the raw material of sapphire – with a transition metal – chromium (Cr) at a temperature of over 2000 to 2050 degrees Celsius. A colored sapphire that retains all its original properties: the most scratch-resistant, most transparent and one of the hardest material in the world. An innovative color as it is the first time in the history of watchmaking that the sapphire is tinged with blue.

Big Bang Unico Sapphire is a limited edition of 250 pieces for the blue version. Case, bezel and case back cut from blue sapphire blocks. Flange, indexes, Arabic numerals and tone-on-tone hour and minute hands in the color of the sapphire reveal by contrast the mechanics of the Unico HUB124 manufacture movement and its column wheel placed on the dial side. Hublot also plans a series of 250 pieces in red sapphire obtained with the fusion of iron (Fe) and aluminum oxide.replica hublot

SINGLE BIG BANG SAPPHIRE

Diameter 45 mm

Thickness 15.70 mm

Water resistance 5 ATM (50m)

Case Blue or red polished sapphire crystal

Bezel Blue or red polished sapphire crystal with 6 titanium H-shaped screws (Blue

Sapphire) or black plated titanium (Red Sapphire)

Sapphire crystal with anti-reflective treatment

Case back Blue or red glossy sapphire crystal with sapphire crystal

Crown and pushers Satin titanium (Blue Sapphire) or black plated satin titanium (Red

Sapphire)

Titanium (Blue Sapphire) or Black Plated Titanium (Red Sapphire) screws

Dial Skeletonized dial in glossy transparent composite resin and indexes

applied with blue or red luminescent coating

Hands Satin-finished hands with blue luminescent coating (Blue Sapphire)

Black lacquered hands with red luminescent coating (Red

Sapphire)

HUB1242 movement, UNICO, in-house movement, flyback chronograph a

automatic winding with column wheel

Calendar Date at 3 o’clock

Number of components 330 (38 jewels)

Frequency 4 Hz (28,800 altern./ hour)

Power reserve 72 hours

Strap Transparent blue structured lined strap (Blue Sapphire)

Transparent smoked structured lined strap (Red Sapphire)

Deployment clasp in titanium (Blue Sapphire)

Deployment clasp in black ceramic and black plated titanium (Red

Sapphire)