Credit where credit is due, Hublot knows how to spot a trend and run with it. Geometric work has been running rampant in the tattoo industry of late, and though it isn’t the core of tattooist Maxime Buchi’s work, it is a style that he works in incredibly well. As luck would have it, it is also a form that, as you can see here, that meshes brilliantly with the geometry of the Hublot Big Bang.
Coming in at 45mm of solid titanium, this is by no means your average Big Bang. Its case has been etched to extend its dial/hand design, and its bezel has been faceted into a hexagonal pattern as well. These details alone make the Sang Bleu stand out from the balance of the Big Bang crew, however that’s only the beginning of what makes the Sang Bleu a properly unique piece even by Hublot standards.
The core of its geometric plates that display hours, minutes, and seconds are said to be a play on the proportional relationships derived from Leonardo Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man — or so the marketing jargon goes. Spin-work aside, what you’re looking at is a clever combination of sets of prisms all spinning off a central axis. As you can see in the video below, the smallest inner set rotates to indicate seconds, the middle plate/ring indicates hours, and the outermost indicates hours.
The outermost perimeter of each set forms an Octagon, making us wonder why a hexagon was chosen for the bezel other than the fact that Hublot did not wish to alter the number of bezel screws on the Big Bang case. Thankfully there are numerals on the dial for hours and minutes, and two triangles on both the minute and hour rings are filled with superluminova to give its wearer at least a bit of an idea of how to read time. Then again, a piece like this isn’t something you buy when the primary concern is legibility.
The Sang Bleu will of course be a limited release from the brand, with plans to build no more than 200 examples. At its heart will beat a non-chronograph variant of Hublot’s in-house Unico movement with a special rotor sporting further Sang Bleu geometry. We have yet to receive exact pricing information at the time of publishing, however the new model is expected to arrive in Hublot boutiques sometime in September.