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Twenty years ago, Hublot, which was then a small independent brand, presented the first technical watch intended for the sea under a brand whose name, which means porthole, already expressed its openness to the ocean. It was 2004 when the Subaquaneus saw the light. Twenty years later, everything has changed. Today, Hublot is an integrated manufacturing company, one of the most disruptive brands, and a company that has made its R&D the driving force of its watchmaking expeditions. But his connection with the sea remains intact, especially since Hublot gave him a name and face: Alan Roura.
This 100-piece collector’s piece made of carbon fiber, like Alan Roura’s IMOCA, embodies the fusion between the sailor, his competition boat, and Hublot technology designed to optimize its performance into a daring piece that recalls the origins of Hublot.
We are talking about the new Big Bang Unico Sailing Team, an outstanding piece available in only 100 copies. The imposing watch stars dressed in black and yellow, the same tones that adorn Alan Roura’s IMOCA. The choice is not accidental: the combination of black and yellow faithfully takes up the black and gold that the first Hublot Classic Original from the 1980s wore, a daring, irreverent combination of yellow gold and a black rubber strap. These icons have been, for more than 40 years, the hallmarks of the manufacturer.
Both watchmaking and racing make constant progress in what unites them: precision, resistance, design, and performance. The Big Bang Unico Sailing Team incorporates all this and much more. It shares with Alan Roura’s IMOCA its polished carbon fiber armor, a light and resistant material. The choice of this material embodies the fusion between man and his machine, between the sailor, his boat, and his watch, the indispensable chronometer of his performance in competitions.
Alan Roura’s Big Bang Unico Sailing Team concentrates on the essence of the IMOCA Hublot in which he sails like a natural extension on his wrist. The watch, the man, and his racing boat merge into one. With a diameter of 42 mm, it is a compact and lively creation. Its strap is of ultra-resistant, black, monobloc polyurethane-coated fabric, whose surface appears woven like a sail and takes inspiration from the sailor’s IMOCA mainsail. The wording HUBLOT, written in full-size letters, adorns the entire strap, faithfully repeating the logo HUBLOT of the IMOCA mainsail, its static signature, which testifies to its presence on the seas.
The heart of the piece also marks a break. It integrates the latest generation of the in-house developed Único caliber, the HUB1280 self-winding chronograph. With no more and no less than three days of power reserve and 354 components, this heart that beats at 4 Hz reveals its aesthetic signature at 6 o’clock, its emblematic column wheel, whose design recalls the winches with which Alan Roura unfolds and tightens its sails.
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