Hublot creates the Big Bang Unico Depeche Mode to celebrate the brand’s new album “Spirit” and their upcoming “Global Spirit Tour”. The sale of the watch will raise funds for charity: water, a non-profit organization whose mission is to bring clean and safe drinking water to people in developing countries.
Hublot and Depeche Mode have been partners since 2010 and have supported charity: water on three other occasions since 2013. During this period, the funds raised by Hublot and Depeche Mode have given life to 229 projects in Nepal and Ethiopia, with 220 standpipes and 19 wells drilled and dug by hand that now bring safe, clean water to over 30,000 men, women and children. For this new campaign, Hublot and Depeche Mode have set the goal to beat this previous achievement and bring clean water to 50,000 people around the world.
The new Big Bang Unico Depeche Mode model has been carved in a 45 mm ceramic knurled case engraved with thousands of pyramids extending to the push-buttons, the crown and the indices. The watch is adorned with a smooth leather strap to which a detachable studded cuff can be added for a rock-star look. With 250 pieces available, the Big Bang Unico Depeche Mode bears the name of Depeche Mode's Global Spirit tour and the emblematic charity: water jerrycan symbol on the sapphire crystal, which reveals the HUB1242 movement.
The new watch will be available for sale as of May 2017, when the band begins its tour.