With the winter sporting season in full swing, Hublot is heading to the slopes with a collaboration that outfits fans of skiing wrist and feet.
The timepiece brand team up with Bischoff and AK Ski to introduce two new models of limited-edition Big Bang Sugar Skull timepieces and coordinating skis that bear the same pattern, drawing on the parties’ shared values of craftsmanship and innovation.
AK Ski uses rubber on its skis, and Hublot shares a respect for the elastic material, using it in the design of these latest timepieces. All of the watches and the coordinating skis have Hublot’s skull emblem depicted in Saint Gaul embroidery by Bischoff. It is extremely elastic; it has an unbeatable stretch factor and resistance. Rubber brings together the performances and the destiny of the two Houses that have become friends.
From Nyon to Saint-Gall, via Nidwald, the Swiss values of excellence, tradition and modernity come together to give life to a capsule collection of 100 watches. Their 42-hour power reserve will give you all the time you need, and almost the desire, to ski or walk between the Hublot Chalet-Boutiques of Zermatt and Courchevel.
BIG BANG SUGAR SKULL BLUE COBALT
50 watches, machined into a 44-mm diameter case in matt black ceramic, housing a mechanical automatic winding chronograph movement. The emblematic skull is drawn in midnight blue on the skeleton dial. Its motifs are engraved on the bezel and embossed on a strap of calfskin sewn onto rubber. A chronograph whose small second counter and minute counter mischievously evoke the gaze of the skull.
BIG BANG SUGAR SKULL HOT PINK
Bischoff’s master craftsmen prepared the silk organza embroidery in their workshops in Saint-Gall. Flashy floral arabesques sketching out a “skull” motif dress the BIG BANG BRODERIE SUGAR SKULL HOT PINK, from its carbon-fibre dial to its ceramic bezel and its pink rubber strap. On the dial, layered sheets of fibre printed with transparent resin are affixed onto a base of carbon fabric. A process that grips the embroidery so as to give it an illusion of depth and the finesse necessary for it to be housed within the heart of the dial. A 41-mm diameter demonstrates time-honoured expertise encapsulated like a work of art and telling the time through 12 black diamond indexes. Limited to 50 pieces.
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