20 Years in the Making

BIG BANG ORIGINAL UNICO

TWENTY YEARS IS NOT A MILESTONE. ITʼS A PRESSURE TEST.

Big Bang Original Unico rotating trio

Since 2005, the Big Bang has been refined under tension. Material against material, form against force, visibility against restraint. What began as a collision became a language, evolved into a discipline, and became embodied as an icon of the 21st century. 

 

Today, we return the Big Bang to its origins. The Big Bang Original Unico carries twenty years of Hublotʼs innovation, risk, reinvention and mastery.

Built to move. Made to express.
Big Bang Original Unico explode
Where obsession meets mastery
The Big Bang Original Unico carries the Big Bang legacy into the next era, with meaningful upgrades inside and out. Its DNA is seen and felt in millimeters and microns. Movements rebuilt until they disappear into silence. Surfaces reconsidered where no one is looking—because the invisible still matters. Thousands of hours converging into a form that holds its ground without explanation.

At its core is Unico: Hublotʼs fully in-house chronograph movement. Not added, but integrated. Not displayed, but revealed. Five patented innovations work in concert beneath the surface, regulating power, friction, and precision with quiet authority. The result is not complexity for its own sake, but control—measured, resolved, exact.

The case has been rebalanced to 43 mm, achieving a proportion that feels inevitable rather than adjusted. Curves are softened. Edges refined. Ergonomics reconsidered until the watch sits naturally, as if it has always belonged there. Through the sapphire caseback, the movement is no longer hidden.
Nothing competes, everything contributes
The dial deepens the tension. Layers create depth without decoration. Counters rise subtly. Volumes shift with light and motion. Certain elements remain intentionally untouched, such as the six unaligned screws, the signature “ears”, and the multi-layer construction. Not as nostalgia—but as structure. What holds still allows everything else to move.

Materials—ceramic, titanium, King Gold—are not chosen for contrast alone, but for what they withstand. Each one shaped by years of experimentation, fusion, and controlled force. Layer by layer, year by year. Until refinement becomes instinct.
Movement explode
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MATERIAL LEGACY

For the launch of the Big Bang Original Unico, four models showcase three of the materials that form the backbone of Hublotʼs Art of Fusion: Black Magic in full black ceramic, Titanium fully crafted in lightweight metal, Titanium Ceramic with a titanium case and black ceramic bezel and King Gold Ceramic pairing a 18k gold case, black ceramic bezel and King Gold–black titanium deployant buckle. Together, they tell one story: twenty years of research, fusion and craftsmanship fused into one icon.

 

Black Magic: turning 20 

Twenty years of black ceramic as a color, a material and a revolution. An All-Black that transforms the unseen into a paragon. Born in 2006, Black Magic embodies Hublotʼs radical spirit made tangible: a deep, technical, ultra-resistant ceramic that broke conventions 20 years ago. Today it defines the Big Bang Unico Original.

 

Ceramic: an infinite spectrum 

A vivid reminder of how far Hublot has pushed material innovation. Years of R&D, patents and full in-house production transforming high-tech powders into bold, durable color. The worldʼs first full-color high-tech ceramic palette densified under extreme pressure, sintered at 1000°C, 300 Vickers harder than traditional ceramic, magnetic and corrosion-proof. What was once impossible made material. 

 

Titanium: Hublotʼs engineering DNA 

Used since the early Big Bang and known for being almost two times lighter than steel, titanium delivers aerospace-grade strength with featherweight comfort. 

 

King Gold: Hublotʼs proprietary alloy 

Gold, redefined: strengthened with platinum and high-tech additives for enhanced hardness and a signature warmer, redder, more intense tone. 

 

The new Big Bang Original Unico collection is available at a selection of Hublot points of sale and online at hublot.com.