The Gentleman Magazine Issue 13 | February 2019 | Page 7

Since 2016, Hublot has become a pioneer in shaping and
colouring sapphire. After transparent, smoked black, blue and
red sapphires, Hublot continues its colorimetric quest. And as
the sky has never been its limit, the watchmaker is once again
marking a world first by inviting the colour of the sun into its
watches. The Spirit of Big Bang Yellow Sapphire, energising,
luminous and brilliant.
SAPPHIRE NO LONGER HOLDS ANY SECRETS FOR
HUBLOT
In 2016, driven by its innovative spirit, Hublot began to
democratise and revolutionise sapphire, a totally transparent
and ultra-resistant material that is ultra-complex to machine.
In 2017, the watchmaker pushed the limits even further:
the master of the Art of Fusion accomplished the feat of
creating large coloured sapphires, despite the complexity,
unpredictability, instability and lack of homogeneity in the
fusion and crystallisation of sapphire. This innovation and
mastery are backed both by significant investments, which have
facilitated the industrialisation of sapphire, and by the work of
the internal R&D team, which is continuously exploring how
to create new colours of sapphire.
Pushing back the boundaries of engineering and chemistry,
Hublot is today creating large, perfectly uniform, transparent
and coloured sapphires. A material that dresses the Big Bang
Unico, the Spirit of Big Bang and even the MP-05 LaFerrari
in transparency. Watches whose external parts have become
invisible and that reveal all of their architecture and movement.
HERE COMES THE SUN
After transparent, smoked black, red and blue, Hublot is
inviting a new primary colour into its colour chart: yellow.
To give sapphire its solar hue, Hublot fused copper (Cu) with
aluminium oxide (Al2O3). A coloured sapphire that conserves
all of its initial properties as the most scratch-resistant and
transparent material, one of the hardest that exists. A colour
that is once again innovative since it is the first time in the
history of watchmaking that sapphire has been coloured yellow.
INNOVATION KNOWS NO LIMITS AT HUBLOT
A watch that is as hard and scratch-resistant as diamond (9 on
the Mohs scale, versus 10 for diamond) and as light as titanium,
107 grams on the wrist. Absolute transparency dressed by the
sparkle of a solar yellow that extends all the way to its natural
rubber bracelet lined with the colour yellow.
Released in only 100 pieces, the Spirit of Big Bang Yellow
Sapphire houses a self-winding skeleton chronograph
movement, entirely “Hublotised” in its architecture and its
finishing, from the legendary Zenith El Primero calibre.
Whether it represents a colour of joy, celebration, power, wealth
or wisdom for you, the Spirit of Big Bang Yellow Sapphire will
shine on your wrist.
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