Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces
New York, Sep 30, 2015
HUBLOT REF 411 BIG BANG WORLD POKER TOUR PINK GOLD & BLACK RUBBER Hublot, Genève, "Big Bang - World Poker Tour" No. 44/100, case No. 1152737, Ref. 411.OX.1180.LR. Made in a limited edition of 100 pieces circa 2013, sold June 2015. Very fine and unusual, self-winding, water-resistant 18K pink gold and rubber wristwatch with date, round button chronograph and a Hublot titanium deployant clasp. Accompanied by the original fitted wooden box housing customized Hublot poker chips and playing cards, certificate, warranty card, and USB reader.
Three-body, polished and brushed, transparent case back with 8 screws and World Poker Tour logo, hooded lugs, bezel embossed with spade, clubs, heart and diamond, black kevlar sides, sapphire crystals. Skeletonized with pink gold framed applied red Arabic numerals, subsidiary dials for the seconds, and 60-minute registers, outer minute track with Arabic 5-minute/seconds marker. Pink gold skeleton baton hands with red inlay. Cal. 1242, rhodium-plated, 38 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, skeletonized rotor, hack mechanism.