Designed in collaboration with Depeche Mode, Hublot’s new Spirit of Big Bang Depeche Mode pays tribute to the British band’s lingering legacy.
As busy as life gets, sometimes it’s important to slow down, take a breath, and ensure that you’re taking it all in. Life can slip past very quickly if you don’t pay attention, something that Memento mori (Latin for ‘remember that you must die”), and artistic trope that reminds us of the inevitability of death and the name of Depeche Mode’s new album, sums up pretty well.
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Fourteen years have already passed since watchmaker Hublot and British band Depeche Mode announced their first collaboration, dedicated to raising public awareness and funds for several environmental and humanitarian causes and since then, this partnership has raised over US$2.3 million for the Teenage Cancer Trust and Charity: Water.
Themed around the determination to live fully in the present while reflecting on the value of time, the new Spirit of Big Bang Depeche Mode watch, limited to 100 pieces, features Memento mori’s iconic motif, a skull motif embellished with an hourglass.
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The new project, which raises funds for Conservation Collective, a global charity that unites a network of regional philanthropic foundations working to protect, conserve and restore natural environments, sees the Spirit of Big Bang’s signature tonneau shape designed with Hublot’s iconic all black aesthetic.
In addition to the skull and hourglass, the centre of the dial is filled with small black ceramic spheres that symbolically flow back and forth while the initials DM, the British band’s logo, appear at 6 o’clock. The indices take the form of pyramid-shaped studs, a motif echoed on the black ceramic bezel.
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Measuring 42 mm, the barrel-shaped case is made of sand-blasted and polished black ceramic and houses a self-winding HUB1710_SD calibre movement with a 50-hour power reserve. The watch, limited to 100 pieces, comes with two straps, one made from recycled materials and Velcro, in line with Conservation Collective’s plastic pollution initiatives, and the second in black rubber with a black titanium folding clasp.
The watch also comes in a special box containing a 1inch vinyl single of Depeche Mode’s Wagging Tongue, only available as part of this package, and produced using green energy and recycled PVC.
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