BY HARLAN CHAPMAN-GREEN
Every year, Hublot dreams up a whimsical new idea for one of its watches, usually the Big Bang Unico Chronograph watch, which has got to be one of their best-selling models at the moment.
The model for this year’s summer lineup joins blazing orange with a calm and refreshing sky-blue to inject real colour into your collection. It’s worth noting that the new watch is made of coloured micro-bead blasted ceramic, one of Hublot’s specialities, which is durable and very resistant to scratching, meaning it’ll look fresh for years to come. Water resistance is 100m.
The central case is made of orange contrasting with dark blue details, and the light blue ceramic bezel is a neat idea, and this contrast extends to the open-worked dial. It’s a classic layout for Hublot now, with orange wrapping around the dial and subdials while blue fills in the gaps, even the movement plate that’s visible through the dial has been coloured blue which emphasises mechanical details like the column wheel controller for the chronograph. The yellow colouring of the chronograph seconds hand allows it to stand out, preventing the watch from being illegible, and the presence of plenty of lume on the large markers also helps with this.
Inside the watch is a coloured version of Hublot’s calibre HUB1280 Unico chronograph movement. This movement is crafted in-house by Hublot’s team and is well-specced; it features a 4Hz beat rate and a 72-hour power reserve. The chronograph features a column wheel (visible on the dial) for more precise starting and stopping, as well as a flyback function, allowing it to be reset without needing to stop the mechanism first. For this summery version of the watch, the movement’s plates have been coloured in dark blue along with the skeletonised winding rotor. The wheels, screws and bearings are silvery as they are on the non-seasonal models, which provides contrast and couples nicely with the sky-blue ceramic of the caseback.
As you’d expect from Hublot, which has built its reputation partly on this, the new Big Bang Unico Summer 2025 comes with three different rubber straps, all of which can be interchanged using their unique One-Click system. Inspired by car seatbelts, the One-Click system has a pusher on the lugs, allowing you to easily and quickly change between Hublot’s straps. The watch comes with three different rubber straps: sky blue, dark blue and orange. All of the straps have a white rubber edge.
Hublot’s newest watch, the Big Bang Unico Summer 2025 model, is limited to 100 examples worldwide and retails for $31,300/€32,600.
