Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 11, 2013

LOT 230

HUBLOT REF. 301 BIG BANG TANTALUM & TITANIUM Hublot, Genève, "Big Bang, Chronograph, Automatic," case No. 6466609, Ref. 301. Made circa 2006. Fine and unusual, oversized, self-winding, water-resistant, tantalum, titanium and kevlar wristwatch with square-button chronograph, registers, date and a special integrated rubber strap with a black stainless steel Hublot deployant clasp.

Three-body, sand blasted, transparent case back with 6 screws, hooded lugs, knurled-edge bezel fixed by 6 titanium nuts, black kevlar sides, sapphire crystals. Gray with applied titanium Arabic numerals and baton indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, aperture for the date, outer minute/seconds track with 5-second/minute Arabic markers. Steel skeletonized baton hands. Cal. 7750, rhodium-plated, 27 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, tungsten/steel rotor. Dial, case and movement signed.