The replica Hublot booth at Baselworld is a flourishing place, a multi-level monolith that’s more akin to a mini city than a trade show stand. We spent a few hours there, taking photos, taking video, and generally getting acquainted with the new collection. We had the door of our little room open, and we could hear the constant, polite hubbub that, in a lot of ways, defines Basel.
One French phrase made its way repeatedly to our ears – ‘La Rainbow’. Curiosity got the better of us and we asked to see this rainbow everyone was talking about. A few minutes later a covered tray appeared in the room, and La Rainbow was unveiled.
The Big Bang Unico Sapphire Rainbow, to give this piece its proper name, is one heck of a replica watch. Like the rest of fake Hublot’s sapphire-cased watches, it’s housed in a 45mm Big Bang case, crafted from ice-like sapphire, with a composite resin dial which allows a clear view of the HUB1242 flies back Chrono movement. The bezel though is something else entirely. The base is 18K white gold, and it’s set with 48 baguettes cut stones – sapphires, rubies, topazes, and tsavorites – in all the colors of the, well, rainbow. These stones are beautifully graded, ranging from vivid pink to arctic blue all the way up to fiery orange.
In fact, we don’t cover this sort of jewelry piece every day at Time Tide, but it’s a great talking point for Hublot cheap replica watches, and the quality of the workmanship is clearly top-notch, what about the appearance? Well, it isn’t for everyone, but to appropriate the motto of the Special Air Service in a somewhat inappropriate way.
