The Big Bang Unico Ledger, a 50-piece limited-edition landmark watch created in partnership with Ledger, is a game-changer and will go down in history as the first wristwatch to fuse fine watchmaking and high-end crypto technology perfectly together, paying tribute to the Maison’s ethos “Be First, Different and Unique”.
This avant-garde is directly perceived in the package that contains three core elements: the watch, a limited-edition Ledger Nano X crypto wallet, and a special sapphire watch box. The watch is based on the Big Bang Unico, which has a 42mm black ceramic case and a skeletonised automatic chronograph in-house movement. Most striking is the watch’s high-contrast golden bezel, cast in solid “Electrum”, a natural gold and silver alloy that was used by Lydian societies in around 580-590 BC to mint the earliest known coins.
For the watch, Hublot’s R&D department developed a special stainless version of the alloy containing a 50/50 gold-silver mix. The Bitcoin Latin motto “Vires in Numeris”, or strength in numbers, is stamped six times into the bezel’s outer edge. Together, these themes capture the spirit of the world’s oldest and newest currencies. The case back is engraved with the Ledger logo and the 50-piece limited-edition number.
Packaged with the watch is the Ledger & Hublot Nano X, a limited-edition crypto key that will only be available with the watch. The Nano X is Ledger’s signature digital asset wallet, a market-leading Bluetooth-enabled piece of hardware for safely encrypting, securing, managing, and growing your crypto assets. The Nano X is finished in matte black and decorated with both Ledger and Hublot logos. These will be delivered in a special presentation box made of a transparent smoked black sapphire chosen to illustrate the transparency and security of blockchain and decentralised currency. The case also makes an ironic reference to the solid, once impervious nature of traditional vaults and safes, which serve no function when it comes to digital assets.
The theme of openness is transmitted seamlessly from the open working of the Big Bang Unico Ledger’s skeletonised dial, which showcases the watch’s elegant mechanical workings where normally they’d be obscured by a dial, through to the box and on into the world of cryptocurrency, and Ledger in particular, which has built its reputation on freely explaining how its technology works.
