The Polo-and-Racquet-made Hublot Giant Bang Unico Novak Djokovic

Hublot has on a regular basis been associated to the fusion of disparate provides, starting with Carlo Crocco’s gorgeous cocktail of a gold case and rubber strap on board the flagship Fundamental Genuine. Hublot’s latest watch dedicated to tennis legend Novak Djokovic takes the “art work of fusion” to unimaginable ranges and even slips inside the much-desired sustainability card. The model new Giant Bang Unico is definitely comprised of the very provides which have accompanied the Serbian ace on his warpath to secure 24 Grand Slam titles. Introducing the Giant Bang Unico Novak Djokovic, the world’s first watch comprised of the tennis participant’s used (and recycled) Lacoste polos and Head tennis racquets.

Novak Djokovic, an Olympic gold medalist, tennis GOAT (Better of All Time) and holder of 24 Grand Slam singles titles, is among the many most enjoyable players in the intervening time. Now working collectively, Hublot and Djokovic (who was associated to Seiko sooner than) decided the watch wanted to have a sustainable ingredient and be extraordinarily lightweight, resilient, and intensely non-public. Launched 4 years after the eruption of the Giant Bang in 2005, the Giant Bang Unico has rounded pushers, Hublot’s in-house Unico built-in computerized chronograph movement, a skeletonised dial and a quick strap change system.

This Giant Bang Unico Novak Djokovic is comprised of a composite of 25 Head tennis rackets, 17 darkish blue and 15 mild blue Lacoste polos worn by Djokovic all through his 2023 season – which explains why it wanted to be a restricted model. The matte blue recycled epoxy resin obtained from the tennis racquets is bolstered with quartz powder and glass veil to kind a composite supplies for the case and bezel. The composite supplies is, in flip, sprinkled with fragments of sunshine and darkish blue Lacoste shirts and black carbon to create a refined camouflage look.

Comparable in assemble to completely different Giant Bang Unico fashions, the 42mm case has a thickness of 14.5mm and is waterproof to 100 metres. It choices the signature sandwich constructing with defending lateral bumpers and a spherical bezel with 6 H-shaped titanium screws. Whenever you look intently, you’ll uncover that the screws are barely domed and have a further indented, swirling pattern like these found on tennis balls. Selecting up on tennis symbols, the best pusher has a yellow tennis ball-coloured cap, whereas the underside pusher is white (tennis whites, presumably?).

Holding the watch featherlight has produced modifications to the outside elements of the case, loads of which are comprised of lightweight aluminium. The lateral defending bumpers aren’t steady nonetheless hollowed out, a attribute that has been utilized to the bezel, the lugs and even the strap attachment module. Inside the pursuit of lightness, Hublot has moreover switched the usual sapphire crystal for tempered Gorilla glass, a fabric that is two cases lighter than sapphire.

The openworked dial provides a partial view of the mechanics, along with the column wheel at 6 o’clock and the uncovered date wheel. The working seconds counter is at 9 o’clock, and the larger, blue-framed disc at 3 o’clock properties the 60-minute chronograph register. Tennis ball yellow is used for the central chronograph seconds hand, the hand of the 60-minute register and the numerals on the minutes observe. Instead of Arabic indices, the hours are represented by white openworked luminescent indices that appear like tuning forks. A spherical white ring inserted inside the chronograph counter on the 15-minute place reveals the date window. Completely different tennis-related particulars are the ‘D’ counterweight on the seconds hand and the Novak Djokovic emblem on the glass.

Not solely was the case reworked to lighten its load, nonetheless the movement was moreover revisited with lightweight anodised aluminium. Powered by the HUB1280 Unico manufacture computerized 4Hz built-in flyback chronograph calibre with column wheel with a 72-hour power reserve, the brass elements had been modified with lightweight aluminium anodised in mild blue to match the camo colour scheme of the case and lowering the load by just about 27%.

The Giant Bang Unico Novak Djokovic comes with 4 fully completely different straps inside the picket watch subject: a Lacoste tennis wristband (full weight of watch and wristband 65g), a blue elastic strap (49.5g), a light-weight blue Velcro strap with a blue aluminium sports activities actions buckle (54g) and a white rubber strap with a titanium deployant buckle (75g). The Giant Bang Unico Novak Djokovic is a restricted model of 100 objects and retails for CHF 48,000, EUR 54,900, USD 52,700 or GBP 45,300. It comes with a Lacoste sports activities actions wristband and a Lacoste polo shirt signed by Novak Djokovic. Further information at Hublot.com.