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One Million Dollar Big Bang from Hublot

One of the major watchmaking companies, Hublot, together with a diamond-setting workshop, Bunter SA, designed and developed an exclusive watch called Big Bang. The watch has a fully invisible setting. Thus the material disappears and only the diamond is revealed.

Watch experts say that Big Bang represents a "performance on a par with Fabergé's egg". With their know-how the designers and developers of the timepiece were able to create a one million dollar Big Bang.

The Big Bang was created thanks to a cooperation between the chairman of Bunter SA workshop, Claude Sanz, and the head of the watchmaking company Hublot, Jean-Claude Biver.

By using advanced technology and their imagination the craftsmen were able to do a very complicated job, which was not possible a few years ago. Complication in micromechanics allowed watch developers to work to the 1/100 degree.

Although the timepiece involves a monobloc construction in white gold, the watch masters made it possible to hide this feature, which means that the final version on Big Bang does not obviously display one ounce of gold which ads more chic and mistery to the watch.

The tourbillon movement of the watch is ingeniously hidden under 493 Top Wesselton baguette diamonds, that, in their turn, are accuretely set, being of various sizes. The strap is made of rubber but its clasp, however, is enriched with diamonds. All in all it took the developers 2000 hours to create the Big Bang. This time included: design, research, development, machine programming, the use of micro-precision tools, cutting diamonds as well as a visual examination of each diamond in part, setting and casing and fine-tuning.