Hublot: Big Bang Unico Red Magic

After Hublot’s invention in 2011, Magic Gold “the world’s most scratch resistant 18K carat Gold” Hublot has once again used its limitless imagination to achieve a world’s first… Big Bang Unico Red Magic, the first watch in ceramic vibrantly coloured.

The Hublot R&D department and Metallurgy & Materials laboratory have succeeded in inventing a magic formula that allows the creation of vibrantly coloured ceramics. This has previously not been done in industries using technical and aesthetic ceramics. In addition, Hublot has refined all the procedures necessary to produce every component of the watch case from this special material. In total, it took Hublot four years to master this discovery and develop it from initial idea to its industrialisation. The invention is 100% Hublot and the expertise has been patented. This newly developed ceramic is incredibly dense, boasting a hardness of 1500 HVI compared to 1200 HV2 of conventional ceramics. This results in an extremely resilient material.

The colour is achieved through a major innovation whereby a fusion of pressure and heat sinters the ceramic without burning the pigments.

For this first coloured ceramic, Hublot has chosen a vivid red, which symbolises power, passion and glory. 

With just 500 pieces released, its 45 mm case and bezel are made from Hublot’s patented red ceramic, boasting a polished finish. The flange, indexes, minute and seconds counters, Arabic numerals and hands all match this hue, adorned in the same red to highlight the contrast with the mechanism of the Unico HUB124 manufacture movement and its column wheel, visible on the dial side through the sapphire crystal. This theme encompasses the entire watch, matched with a lined structured red rubber strap. (Price CHF 24.900)