The Hublot Big Bang GMT Replica is already available in titanium, carbon fiber, and precious metal, so this is the first time that it’s been rendered in ceramic — bead-blasted, no less, yielding a super-matte, skeletonized look that feels like it’d be more at home in the cockpit of the batmobile than on the wrist of an internationally renowned fashion designer.
Aesthetic aside, from a functional standpoint, the Big Bang GMT is one of the more unique Replica watches in Hublot’s stable, as its HUB1251 movement displays two time zones at once and enables the wearer to jump the hour hand forward or backward in single hour increments by engaging either of the pushers on the 3 o’clock side of the case.
What’s particularly neat about this movement is that it is essentially Fake Hublot’s widely deployed in-house HUB1242 Unico movement with the column wheel and chronograph functions stripped out and replaced with a proprietary GMT module to yield the quick-adjust functionality.
Bear in mind that even with the added utility of the quick-adjust, this still isn’t a “true” GMT, as neither of the time zones is displayed in a 24-hour format, which is why there’s a skeletonized AM/PM indicator occupying the center of the dial around the hand stack to help keep things straight.