Hublot has a rather quiet history as a pleasant but extremely small watch brand that did itself the disservice of being founded during the height of the quartz crisis. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, the Hublot replica wasn’t doing very well and was apparently looking for a purchaser. That buyer eventually has to be the Jean-Claude Biver who recently came from the fake rolex and Blancpain. 
Biver told me several years ago that the Hublot was losing a few million dollars a year when he acquired it and in 2004 he officially became the CEO. In 2005 his radical plan to reform the brand started with the launch of the Big Bang. The design built on the classic porthole sports watch case that the Hublot was founded on, but made for a new generation, in a boldly large size, with a strong, hyper-masculine design.
My first experience with a Hublot Big Bang watch was back in about 2006 – about one year after its original release. I’d heard about the replica watches but never seen one on public. This was more than a year prior to when aBlogtoWatch even started. I encountered the Big Bang in a rather unlikely place.
The first thing I recall noticing on the Big Bang was the applied military stencil-style hour markers and how cool they looked. The rubber strap design struck me as being a bit odd, and overall I remember feeling as though I’d never held a fake watch in my hands that was quite like it. I didn’t know at the time whether or not I was a Big Bang fan, but it left a deep impression in my mind and I could understand why the dentist got so excited about it. If anything, the Big Bang was impressive for being actually quite different than what I think most watch lovers were used to circa the mid-2000s. That would all change a few years later.
The Hublot Big Bang 44 watch I am going to talk about is actually the same exact model that I was shown in that dentist’s living room over a decade ago. Now it is on my wrist, even if it is one of many replica Hublot watches I’ve put on my wrist. The last Hublot I reviewed was the spiritual successor to the original Big Bang which was the Hublot Big Bang UNICO watch. As we said, the Big Bang 44 has a unique look and wearing experience. Compared to the Big Bang UNICO, this earlier model is much simpler, slightly smaller, and at this point actually feels more classical.
The sandwich-style case design is where a lot of the “art of fusion” comes into play. The popular Hublot designed the Big Bang this way so that it could mix and match colors and materials. Being able to have a modular case design was an important part of the original concept. This best watch case makes use of steel, resin, titanium, ceramic, and rubber. Other Big Bang models have featured a large host of other materials ranging from gold to carbon fiber and even magnesium.