Hublot, a Swiss luxury watch maker, has
announced two new models in its flagship Big Bang series of luxury watches.
Called the Big Bang e, these are the only two smartwatches in this series but
try to achieve the same look and feel as their analogue stablemates, even if
they are the cheapest models in the company's lineup.
The two wrist watches — Big Bang e
Titanium and Big Bang e Black Ceramic — have the same basic design as other Big
Bang watches with a 42mm dial. They feature the sandwich design by Hublot, with
two layers of the material sandwiching the watch in the middle. You get
scratch-proof sapphire crystal glass cover over the display, while the watch
bands use a patented One Click system for easy removal. The classic Hublot rubber
bands feature the deployant buckle design invented by Hublot.
On the smartwatch side of things, the Big
Bang e features a 390x390 pixel 1.21-inch AMOLED display powered by a quad-core
Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear 3100 clocked at 1.1GHz with 1GB of memory and 8GB
storage. It has the usual assortment of sensors but seemingly no GPS. Other
than that you get Bluetooth 4.2 LE, 2.4GHz Wi-Fi 802.11n and NFC. The 300mAh
battery is said to last a single day of use.
The watch comes with a bunch of Hublot
designed watch faces, along with a 24 hour dynamic watch face designed by
artist Marc Ferrero, which changes colors and design every three hours. As a
smartwatch, it's nothing special but some might still be swayed by the Hublot
badge, which couldn't come any cheaper. And if you think the US$ 5200 price tag
for the Titanium version and the US$ 5800 for the Black Ceramic are expensive, you
are clearly not ready to see what the analog models cost.
