Hublot Big Bang Unico Golf Orange Carbon
At LVMH Watch Week 2022, Hublot introduces the Big Bang Unico Golf Orange Carbon, an entirely mechanical golf watch that can keep track of your score over the course of an 18-hole round.
In 2017 and in partnership with the most successful golfer of his generation Dustin Johnson, Hublot introduced the world’s first mechanical golf watch, the Big Bang Unico Golf. Most golf watches are digital, but this innovative Swiss Made watch brought the joy of watchmaking mechanics to golfers’ wrists.
Hublot developed a module for the Unico movement so that through three apertures, the watch showed golfers which hole they were on, how many shots they’d taken on that hole, and their cumulative score for the round. The Big Bang Unico Golf Orange Carbon continues the story, casing the ground-breaking Hublot MHUB1580 automatic movement in zesty, lightweight orange carbon.
We love golf! And we love Dustin Johnson! The combination of this great sport, this great champion and this great mechanical golf watch continues to excite us and we’re very proud to introduce this new version of what has become an icon in golf and in Swiss watchmaking. At Hublot, we strive to be first, unique and different in everything we do, just like Dustin and just like the Big Bang Unico Golf Orange Carbon. Thank you Dustin !
The 45mm Big Bang Unico Golf Orange Carbon is simple to operate. The shot-counting mechanism is activated by a yellow putter-shaped pusher at 2 o’clock, which also advances the yellow stroke counter visible through an aperture at 3 o’clock. When it’s time to move to the next hole, another putter-shaped pusher at 4 o’clock resets the shot indication to zero and advances the hole indication at 9 o’clock by one hole. The cumulative score goes up by one with every recorded shot, and is shown through an aperture at 6 o’clock.
At the end of a round, the display can be reset to zero via the pusher at 8 o’clock. This pusher can be locked by rotating it 45 degrees to avoid accidentally resetting your score during a round. And because the watch is skeletonised, revealing the movement’s inner workings, every operation is visualised by an intriguing dance of precisely choreographed moving parts – just like a good golf swing.
I love this watch. It’s so complex and beautiful, but also so light and easy to use. Players can overthink golf, when it’s better to relax and just play the game. This watch captures some of that – it’s the kind of device that slows everything down, encouraging you to stay calm while you’re out there. What I like is that the same skill, patience and discipline you need to achieve that on the course are also behind making a watch this technical and this smart. I think it looks great and I am proud to add it to my collection. . Thank you, Hublot for another great watch and our continued partnership.
The Big Bang Unico Golf Orange Carbon has a power reserve of 72 hours, comes on a high-tech orange fabric strap with Hublot’s One Click change system, weighs less than 100 grams, and is water-resistant to 100 metres. It will be limited to 100 pieces and is available now.
Technical specifications
Hublot Big Bang Unico Golf Orange Carbon
Reference: 416.YO.1120.VR
Limited edition of 100 pieces
Case
- Material: Carbon fiber and upper layer orange texalium
- Diameter: : 45 mm
- Thickness: 18.20 mm
- Glass: Sapphire with anti-reflective treatment
- Bezel: Carbon fiber and orange texalium upper layer with 6 H-shaped polished titanium black PVD screws
- Caseback: Carbon fiber and orange texalium upper layer, sapphire with anti-reflective treatment
- Water-resistant to 100 meters (10 ATM)
Dial and hands
- Matt black skeleton
Movement
- MHUB1580 Caliber
- UNICO manufacture self-winding movement
- Frequency: 4 Hz (28,800 vph)
- Number of components: 358
- Number of jewels: 43
- Power reserve of 72 hours
Functions/Indications
- Hours, minutes, seconds
- Tracking score over an 18-hole round of golf.
Strap and buckle
- Black rubber with carbon fiber texture décor and orange calf leather strap
- Black ceramic and black-plated titanium deployant clasp
- Additional orange fabric with velcro black-plated aluminium buckle
MSRP
- CHF 30'900
- EUR 32'100
- USD 32'500
- GBP 26'900
For more information, please visit hublot.com
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