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SPIRIT OF BIG BANG SANG BLEU ALL BLACK PAVÉ

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New All Black release: black diamonds tattooed into monochrome geometry.

With the Spirit of Big Bang Sang Bleu All Black Pavé, Swiss tattoo artist Maxime Plescia-Buchi engraves Hublot’s distinctive codes in black ink, merging Hublot’s revolutionary All Black concept, debuted in 2006, with the signature barrel-shaped Spirit of Big Bang case.

This new All Black release marks the latest evolution of their joint creative journey since 2016. Hublot x Sang Bleu – since 2016 Hublot and Maxime Plescia-Buchi, founder of Sang Bleu, have brought tattoo artistry into the world of high horology, transforming tattoo art into wearable timepieces. Their partnership blends intricate geometric designs with Hublot’s technical craftsmanship and materials. Since their first collaboration in 2016, they
have released over a dozen designs, starting with the Big Bang Sang Bleu in 2016, followed by a second edition in 2019, and the Spirit of Big Bang Sang Bleu in 2023.

Spirit of Big Bang Sang Bleu All Black Pavé

Hublot’s monochromatic All Black “invisible visibility” concept has revolutionized watch design since 2006, introducing a new approach where aesthetics take precedence over immediate readability. By removing color contrasts and emphasizing varying shades of black through innovative materials, textures, and shapes, this black-on-black design has become a striking expression of understated luxury for nearly two decades. The latest All Black comes in the Spirit of Big Bang Sang Bleu All Black Pavé. Limited to just 200 pieces, this edition features a 42mm polished black-plated case adorned with 180 black diamonds, totaling approximately 2.4 carats. Maxime Plescia-Buchi’s iconic tattoo artistry, defined by sharp lines and intricate geometric patterns, gives the watch its distinctive three-dimensional design. The engraved geometry flows from the case to the bezel, adding depth and texture.

Powered by the HUB4700 Self-winding Skeleton

Chronograph movement, the watch boasts a 50-hour power reserve. Paired with a black rubber strap and a black ceramic and titanium folding clasp. The Spirit of Big Bang Sang Bleu All Black Pavé will make its debut in China, three months ahead of its global release.

“The Hublot x Sang Bleu creations are the ink of time, carving my artistic vision in a new dimension: time permanently engraved into the geometry of watches. My collaboration with Hublot is like an architectural project; the Spirit of Big Bang collection represents the third wall of our shared structure, blending geometric aesthetics with enhanced ergonomics for a unique design. The black-diamond tattoo adorning the Spirit of Big Bang Sang Bleu All Black Pavé add captivating depth to my sharp lines and intricate shapes, reinforcing the three-dimensional design of this tonneau-shaped watch and making it truly unique.” MAXIME PLESCIA-BUCHI-SANG BLEU FOUNDER, HUBLOT AMBASSADOR

“Enduring collaborations define us at Hublot. Our eight-year creative synergy with Maxime Plescia-Buchi has produced unique models fusing geometric design, artistic precision, and profound symbolism – inking the essence of time into watches. Together, we continually push the boundaries of design and craftsmanship, showcasing our innovative spirit and commitment to what makes Hublot unique. From the All Black to the Tonneau-Shape revolutions, our collaboration redefines identity, spatial design and architectural dimension through the distinct geometry and symmetry of Sang Bleu, ensuring our watch designs remain unique.” JULIEN TORNARE-HUBLOT CEO

SPIRIT OF BIG BANG SANG BLEU ALL BLACK PAVÉ

REFERENCE: 648.CX.0114.RX.1600.MXM24

CASE

Polished Black-plated set with 80
Black Diamonds
Diameter: 42 mm
Thickness: 15.7 mm
Water Resistant: 10 ATM / 100 M

CASE BACK

Polished Black Ceramic

BEZEL

Polished Black-plated set
with 100 black diamonds

DIAL

Sapphire Crystal

MOVEMENT

HUB4700 Self-winding Skeleton Chronograph
Frequency (Hz): 5 (36’000 A/H)
Power reserve: 50 hours
Number of components: 278
Jewels: 31

STRAP AND BUCKLE

Strap: Black Smooth Rubber
Clasp: Black Ceramic and Black-plated Titanium Deployant Buckle

PRICE

CHF 42’900.00
EUR 49’100.00
USD 47’100.00
GBP 40’500.00

HUBLOT Spirit of Big Bang Sang Bleu: Tattoo-etched sapphire

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Spirit of Big Bang Sang Bleu. A high-tech creation incised into the transparency of sapphire.

Tattoo-etched sapphire, new boundaries pushed back.

After 8 years of collaboration between Hublot and Maxime Plescia-Buchi, we finally have a creation in sapphire. The three-dimensional geometry and the indelible features of Sang Bleu have been inked into Hublot’s high-tech material of choice. A geometric watch to be tattooed on your wrist, combining intensity and softness, strength and subtlety. Hublot has once again demonstrated its ability to combine craftsmanship and technology with this hyper-complex timepiece.

Spirit of Big Bang Sang Bleu

Since 2016, the Hublot x Sang Bleu collaboration has seen the celebrated typographer, tattooist, artist, and founder of Sang Bleu, Maxime Plescia-Buchi, set down his indelible and distinct features, and stamp his three-dimensional geometry with both relief and depth onto Hublot watches. From the Big Bang in 2016 to Spirit of Big Bang in 2023, 2024 is once again making its mark.

Spirit of Big Bang Sang Bleu Sapphire – A play on similarities and differences.

It has kept the Spirit of Big Bang, maintaining the 42 mm diameter and the soul of the barrel shape, while offering a different aesthetic finish. It is a watch that, even with its ultra-generous proportions and assertive shape, offers perfect ergonomics to suit all wrist sizes, both feminine and masculine. There’s no change onthe movement side, with the HUB4700, a skeletonised automatic chronograph with date at 4.30, 50-hour power reserve and its oscillating weight redesigned in the Sang Bleu style. The inspired design remains the same, a watch incised, chiselled, angled and faceted by Sang Bleu, revealing and overlaying hexagons, rhombuses and triangles redrawing forms and volumes, feature by feature. The playful relief and depth in Maxime’s features takes on a new dimension, as the sapphire reveals an entirely new personality.

 

Spirit of Big Bang Sang Bleu Sapphire – A contrasting softness of features incised into the hardness of the sapphire

The sapphire now extends from the dial – which already revealed the HUB4700 self-winding skeleton chronograph movement through the disc hands designed by Sang Bleu – to the case and the bezel, enhancing the watch’s organic design. The complexity of the design of the collection, plus the demanding geometry of Maxim Plescia-Buchi’s polygonal tattooing, meant that Hublot once again had to push back the boundaries of machining sapphire. Under the impact of the sapphire’s transparency, the purity of the Sang Bleu features, which remain sharp and methodical, expresses itself here in an ultra-light minimalist style, both visually and on the wrist. A fascinating and highly demanding material, whose total transparency required an absolutely perfect level of finish.

Thanks to 3D machining and over 100 hours of work, the Spirit of Big Bang Sapphire Sang Bleu is practically as hard and scratch resistant as a diamond (9 on the Mohs scale, compared to 10 for diamonds). The only remaining non-transparent elements are the crown, the push buttons, the screws on the case, the 6 H-shaped screws on the bezel, and the folding clasp, all cut out of titanium, and the components of the movement.

Produced in a run of 100 pieces; making this a collector’s edition!

“Beneath Maxime’s spatially redesigned features, it is like we achieve this duality every time, whereby the watch’s DNA is simultaneously identical and yet so very different. While the sapphire gives Maxim’s three-dimensional tattoos a new geometric aesthetic, it has also provided us with the opportunity to reconsider their technical production, to take on new challenges, to optimize our processes, and to overcome new constraints. Each model drives us to improve ourselves in a quest for both technical and aesthetic excellence. To machine sapphire into the demanding geometry of Sang Bleu’s polygonal tattooing meant that we once again had to push back our boundaries in the mastery of this iconic material. There is no longer any doubt that Hublot is the leader in making sapphire timepieces!”  – RICARDO GUADALUPE, HUBLOT CEO

“2024 marks eight years of collaboration with Hublot, and three iterations: the first in 2016 with the Big Bang Sang Bleu; the second in 2019 with the Big Bang Sang Bleu II; and finally the Spirit of Big Bang in 2023. While every design is produced using a similar approach, transposing the principles of my tattooing across to Hublot’s specific watchmaking space, the result is different every time, as it is applied to a different base. In 2016, it was the Big Bang 3 Hands, in 2019, the Big Bang Chronograph and in 2023 the Spirit of Big Bang Chronograph. This time, in addition, we are transposing what the DNA itself has become, the fusion of Hublot and Sang Bleu, onto a Hublot signature material never before applied to our collaboration: sapphire. This is a highlight for this collaboration because sapphire is, in itself, the most noble material used in the watchmaking industry, while it simultaneously bestows something ghost-like and
futuristic, virtually architectural, onto the pieces. This corresponds exactly to what I seek to produce in all my projects.”  -MAXIME PLESCIA- BUCHI, FOUNDER OF SANG BLEU, HUBLOT AMBASSADOR

SPIRIT OF BIG BANG SANG BLEU SAPPHIRE

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

REFERENCE: 648.JX.0102.RT.MXM24

SIZE: 42 mm

CASE: Polished Sapphire Crystal

BEZEL: Polished Sapphire Crystal

WATER RESISTANCE: 50m or 5 ATM

CRYSTAL: Sapphire with Anti-reflective Treatment

DIAL: Sapphire Crystal Dial

MOVEMENT: HUB4700 Self-winding Skeleton Chronograph Movement

POWER RESERVE: 50 Hours

STRAP: White Transparent Smooth Rubber Straps

CLASP: Titanium Deployant Buckle Clasp

The spirit of HUBLOT; the embodiment of Sang Bleu.

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For the 7th year and third collaboration with Hublot, Maxime Plescia-Buchi is channelling the Spirit of Big Bang through the Sang Bleu prism. Just as his tattoos create new identity, revealing new shapes and new perspectives, the celebrated typographer, tattooist, artist and founder of Sang Bleu injects a new spirit into the Spirit of Big Bang collection. The Spirit of Big Bang Sang Bleu stays true to the series’ characteristics while remaining highly distinctive. With a faceted, structured 42 mm diameter, this watch has an enhanced three-dimensional and ergonomically-enhanced design. There are three limited editions to adorn your wrist – 200 units in titanium, 200 in All Black ceramic and 100 in King Gold. In addition, two models are set with 180 diamonds in titanium and King Gold.

Launched in 2014, the Spirit of Big Bang retained all of the Big Bang’s original features in a barrel-shaped case. A reinterpretation of Hublot’s DNA, simultaneously identical yet so different. For this third collaboration, Maxime has infused it with a new spirit without changing its soul, introducing the Spirit of Big Bang Sang Bleu. He achieves this same transformation, injecting the concepts of the Big Bang Sang Bleu I & II, by redefining the lines of the Spirit of Big Bang. Without losing what makes our barrel watch so distinctive, he gives it a new identity, a spatial redesign and a more architectural dimension, revealed by the Sang Bleu geometry and symmetry. A fusion that exceeds perfection. The symbol of a collaboration that highlights the best features and unique potential of each design. In our watches and in our collaborations, one philosophy underscores the vision of everything we do: to adapt to the container while always focusing on the quality of the content. – RICARDO GUADALUPE, HUBLOT CEO

Identical or different? Both… But always unique!

Ensuring consistency while remaining innovative. Keeping the spirit while creating a unique, exclusive and distinctive object. This is the subtlety of the art behind the Hublot and Maxime Plescia-Buchi collaboration. The talented tattoo artist has reimagined the strokes of the Spirit of Big Bang with stretched, elongated bevelled features and measured, perfectly proportioned angles that fit together to create a timepiece where the Sang Bleu signature is instantly recognisable. Like each of his tattoos, the line adapts to the case, to its distinctive characteristics, reliefs, curves, and texture, while retaining what is essential: its spirit. This is the same philosophy that inspired the Spirit of Big Bang.

Hublot x Sang Bleu: Seven years of artistic and creative collaboration

First introduced in the 2016 Hublot – Sang Bleu series, 2023 saw the third edition unveiled at the Salone del Mobile in Milan. The tattoo artist has stamped his indelible, distinctive, and assertive line on a new collection. After the Big Bang, his signature now adorns the Spirit of Big Bang. As usual, he traces his three-dimensional geometry in perfect symmetry with a mysteriously magnetic architecture, playing with relief and depth through polished, satin finished, engraved, chiselled, bevelled and faceted materials. Hexagons, diamonds and triangles appear and overlap, redefining shapes and volumes line by line.

My collaboration with Hublot is like constructing a house, an architectural project in itself. The Spirit of Big Bang Sang Bleu is the third wall of this shared structure. It signifies a landmark, as the house we are building now stands firmly and coherently in its own right. After having made my mark on the Big Bang, my creative process has taken on a new form. This is the new collection, and the barrel shape of the Spirit of Big Bang. I have been able to question and review each component, from the case to the crystal, the bracelet to the clasp, considering each shape and proportion through a holistic reflection. The aim is to incorporate the DNA of the Big Bang Sang Bleu II into the Spirit of Big Bang Sang Bleu. The result is a similar geometric aesthetic with a new interpretation of shapes and volumes. This creation is guided by perfectly proportioned shapes that interact and overlap to create a unique, distinctive design while enhancing the ergonomics for the wearer. – MAXIME PLESCIA-BUCHI, SANG BLEU FOUNDER, HUBLOT AMBASSADOR

The result: The Spirit of Big Bang Sang Bleu

A 42 mm-diameter case, crafted in a choice of three materials: Titanium (200 units), All Black ceramic (200 units) or King Gold (100 units), as well as two models set with 180 diamonds weighing approximately 2.4 carats, in titanium and King Gold. Geometric tattoos alternate and overlap from the case to the bezel. A sapphire dial displays the HUB4700 automatic skeleton chronograph movement through disc hands bearing the characteristic geometry of timepieces made in collaboration with Sang Bleu. A watch that, even with its ultra-generous proportions and prominent shape, offers a perfect ergonomic fit across all wrist sizes, for both men and women, with or without a bezel. The geometry of the Big Bang Sang Bleu II has been retained while also optimising the dynamic nature of the barrel shape. In terms of design, to ensure that the watch perfectly fits the curves of the wrist and is flush with the body, the back of the case and the sapphire crystal have been arched at several points. In terms of dial legibility, the structure of the hands has been enhanced and the hour and minute markers have been refined. By transposing his line onto a different volume, the barrel shape of the Spirit of Big Bang, Maxime has given new perspective to each component, shape and proportion. It is these details that give the Spirit of Big Bang a new dimension, just as Hublot gave a new spirit to the Big Bang codes by unveiling the Spirit of Big Bang in its barrel shape back in 2014.

Hublot – Sang Bleu – Trilogy

Hublot & Maxime Plescia-Buchi have art in their blood and are “inking” the art of tattooing into watchmaking. In 2016, the first Big Bang Sang Bleu saw the three-dimensional geometry of the famous tattoo artist imprinted on its design, revealing a perfectly proportioned structure inspired by Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man. This quest for perfection and the use of symbols is the hallmark of all of Sang Bleu’s creative work. In 2019, with the Sang Bleu II, the tattoo artist x watchmaker collaboration was expressed as a “full body” tattoo across the entire Big Bang model, including the case, the hexagonal bezel, the sapphire crystal, the hands, and the bracelet. A three-dimensional style that has been entirely revamped in 2023 to embody a new “tattooed” collection – the Spirit of Big Bang. In perfect fusion with the way Hublot launched the Spirit of Big Bang in 2014, incorporating Hublot’s DNA and the distinctive codes of the Big Bang (its 6 H-shaped titanium screws running through the watch bezel, sandwich construction with endless combinations of materials and colours, signature lugs on each side of the case, and a screwed crown over moulded with rubber), Maxime has revisited each component of the Spirit of Big Bang.