Did Hublot think it hadn’t made things clear enough with the MP-05? Turning to more conventional shapes, they milled a 500-piece limited edition Big Bang (the largest production run of a sapphire case), with the case middle, bezel and back made from three blocks of sapphire, calling on the expertise of a Swiss specialist as part of an exclusive partnership to develop the material. Combining the colourless sapphire case with a transparent resin dial and skeleton work it made the movement (the in-house automatic flyback chronograph movement
almost entirely visible. Or should we be saying invisible? Enhancing the effect, the strap is made from almost-transparent silicone. This combination of elements set the parameters for all of the Unico Sapphire