HUBLOT BIG BANG SUMMER 2026: CERAMIC IN PASTEL FORM

For 2026, Hublot returns to its summer vocabulary with ceramic in softer registers. The Big Bang Summer series takes mint green, pink, and sky blue, then places them across the case, bezel, caseback, dial architecture, and rubber straps. The effect is deliberately seasonal, but the work behind it remains technical: coloured high-tech ceramic requires control over pigment, firing, stability, finishing, and repeatability, particularly when several tones are placed across one watch.

The collection is led by two Big Bang Summer models built around the same pastel composition. One carries the Unico manufacture flyback chronograph in a 42 mm format, while the other houses the HUB6035 manufacture automatic tourbillon in a 44 mm case. Both share a palette drawn from Mediterranean light: mint green, pink, and sky-to-sea blue ceramic, applied with the contrast that has long defined Hublot’s approach to material and form.

Hublot’s ceramic work has often been associated with saturated colour, but the Big Bang Summer 2026 collection show the material in a quieter register. The 42 mm Big Bang Summer Multi-Coloured Ceramic pairs a microblasted and polished pink and mint green ceramic case with a sky-blue ceramic bezel and matching sky-blue case-back. Its dial continues the chromatic arrangement in matte mint green and pink, set against the openworked construction of the Unico chronograph.

Ceramic is not treated here as surface colour alone. Since 2018, Hublot has developed a palette of coloured high-tech ceramics, with the manufacture citing multiple patents and enhancements behind a ceramic said to be up to 300 Vickers harder than traditional ceramic. That hardness is part of the appeal: colour is carried through a material made for scratch resistance and lasting visual stability, rather than applied as a coating or decorative afterthought.

The 42 mm chronograph is powered by the HUB1280 Unico self-winding flyback chronograph movement with column wheel. Running at 4 Hz, it offers an approximate 72-hour power reserve and is assembled from 354 components with 43 jewels. The calibre has been part of Hublot’s in-house movement story since 2010, with a construction that includes dual oscillating clutches, a constant-pressure minute counter system, a zero-friction ratchet blocker, and a fine balance wheel adjustment system.

Those technical details matter because the Big Bang Summer is not merely a colour exercise. The open dial exposes the chronograph’s architecture beneath the pastel frame, allowing the movement, dial furniture, and ceramic components to work as one composition. The watch is completed with a sky-blue and white-lined rubber strap, while additional mint green and pink white-lined rubber straps allow the case colours to be rearranged on the wrist through Hublot’s One-Click system.

The 44 mm Big Bang Summer Multi-Coloured Ceramic brings the same palette into a more architectural expression. Its transparent pink sapphire crystal dial exposes the HUB6035 automatic tourbillon movement beneath, giving the watch a stronger sense of depth and mechanical openness. The movement uses a micro-rotor visible from the dial side, runs at 3 Hz, and offers an approximate 72-hour power reserve.

The case follows the same pastel construction as the chronograph, with microblasted and polished pink and mint-green ceramic, a sky-blue ceramic bezel, and a microblasted sky-blue ceramic caseback with sapphire crystal and anti-reflective treatment. It is fitted to a sky blue and white-lined rubber strap, with additional mint-green and pink white-lined rubber straps supplied for a more direct play between case, dial, and strap colour.

Alongside the multi-coloured Big Bang Summer models, Hublot introduces three monochrome ceramic 33 mm watches in peach, mint green, and petrol blue. For the first time in the Big Bang’s history, the 33 mm format appears without diamonds, allowing the ceramic's colours to define the watch more directly. Each version carries the colour across the dial, case, bezel, and structured lined rubber strap, creating a single-tone reading of the Big Bang form.

The 33 mm Big Bang Peach Ceramic is fitted with a shiny peach dial, polished peach ceramic case, polished peach ceramic bezel, and peach structured lined rubber strap. The 33 mm Big Bang Mint Green Ceramic follows the same construction in polished mint green ceramic with a shiny mint green dial, while the 33 mm Big Bang Petrol Blue Ceramic uses polished petrol blue ceramic and a petrol blue dial. Each is powered by the HUB1120 self-winding movement, with an approximate 40-hour power reserve.

A 42 mm Big Bang Titanium Peach Ceramic extends the peach tone into the Unico chronograph family. Its satin-finished and polished titanium case is paired with a polished peach ceramic bezel, peach skeleton dial, peach hands, and a peach structured lined rubber strap. Powered by the HUB1280 Unico self-winding flyback chronograph movement, it carries the same 4 Hz frequency, approximate 72-hour power reserve, 354-part construction, and 43 jewels as the multi-coloured chronograph.

The Big Bang Summer 2026 collection is at its strongest when colour and construction are read together. Pastel ceramic gives the watches their immediate character, but the deeper interest lies in how those colours are achieved, finished, and integrated into the Big Bang’s layered case architecture. Across the Unico chronograph, automatic tourbillon, and monochrome 33 mm ceramic models, Hublot uses summer not as a theme placed over the watch, but as a material study in tone, resistance, and mechanical visibility.