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BOUTIQUE
GEOMETRIC TIME
The result of a successful new partnership with Maxime Buchi, founder of the legendary Sang Bleu London tattoo studio, Hublot’s new Big Bang Sang Bleu reflects
the harmonious proportions derived from Leonard de Vinci’s Vitruvian Man and
incorporates the geometric shapes that characterize Buchi’s tattoo designs.
This brand-new, totally redesigned Big Bang, features a three-dimensional bezel
that has been shaped into a hexagon. The matte black dial boasts a wide black
satin finish circular flange stamped with the hours, the numerals for which were
created by Maxime’s typeface-design agency SwissTypefaces SARL. The seconds
counter appears discreetly on the metal sculpture that dresses the dial. No hand
appears on the dial. Instead, the time is displayed through the superposition of
three rhodium-plated octagonal-shaped discs. The largest disc indicates the hours,
while the small one marks the minutes. To make it easier to tell the time, one of the
tips of the hours and minutes octagons is in white Superluminova. As for the seconds, these tick by in the center on a black disc stamped with the H of Hublot and
the stylized hourglass of Sang Bleu.
Produced in a series of 200 pieces, the titanium Big Bang Sang Bleu is powered by
the Unico manufacture movement, which has been entirely remodeled without a
chronograph and redesigned in order to tell the time through three discs. The oscillating weight silhouette features the triangular codes of the Sang Bleu logo.
TIME TRAVELER
For the first time in its history, Jaquet Droz has incorporated a Dual Time
complication into one of its most emblematic models, the Grande Seconde.
Featuring two off-center dials, slightly overlapping to delineate the brand’s
signature figure eight, the Grande Second Dual Time is equipped with a
new movement that was developed to create an upper dial displaying the
local time and a lower seconds dial, off-centered at 6 o’clock, that doubles
up with an hours and minutes dial giving the reference time. Remaining
true to the aesthetic principles of the brand, the Jaquet Droz artisans conceived a classic, sophisticated display, starting with contrasting indexes:
Roman numerals on the upper counter and Arabic numerals on the lower.
They also added a date complication, indicated by a red-tipped hand that
enhances the recessed lower subdial. The 43mm model comes in three
versions: an ivory Grand Feu enameled dial with red gold case, and a silvery
or opaline dial with a stainless steel case. Suggested retail is $18,800.
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