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With every passing day we’re getting closer to the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil™, where Hublot will be the Official Timekeeper for the highly anticipated tournament. But perhaps more importantly for Hublot aficionados out there is that Hublot is also the Official Watch brand for the tournament, and for the occasion the official watch has finally been announced. Meet the Big Bang Unico Bi-Retrograde Chrono.
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No stranger to the world of football (or soccer for our friends in North America) Hublot has released numerous football-themed watches in the past, starting with the Big Bang Euro 2008 that featured a 45-minute chronograph to the more recent football club releases such as the King Power Juventus and Paris Saint-Germain team watches. For an a tournament as monumental as the FIFA 2014 however, Hublot have gone and created an all-new football timing watch that features a new iteration of the in-house manufactured Unico movement.
Using the Big Bang Unico 45mm case as the canvas, Hublot has reimagined the way one would use a chronograph watch to time a football match. To accomplish this feat, Hublot used the automatic Unico movement as the “base” caliber, to which an in-house developed module with a patent-pending design is applied on top, providing the most unique mechanical interface for spectators to time the match.
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The way it works if fairly intuitive. From 10 o’clock to 2 o’clock you have a radial display for the chronograph’s minutes and seconds hand, which are centrally mounted. Once the chronograph is activated using the pusher at 2 o’clock, the sweeping seconds will advance until it hits the 60 seconds mark at 2 o’clock, where it jumps back to 0 via a retrograde action. The chronograph minutes hand also makes the same retrograde movement, while taking into account potential extra time and added time, where the user simply has to push the 2 o’clock pusher twice to count the next half of the game.
And speaking of halves, Hublot has added a window display right above the center of the dial, where the wearer can keep track of which half of the game he/she is timing. The principal hours and minutes dial has been offset to small dial at 6 o’clock, making the Big Bang Unico Bi-Retrograde Chrono a football timer first and foremost.
The Big Bang Unico Bi-Retrograde Chrono will be made in two versions, a King Gold case with a Carbon Fiber bezel or black Ceramic and Carbon Fiber, and will be limited to 100 and 200 pieces respectively.
Be sure to follow Hublot Nation for more updates as we countdown to 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil™!
