Hublot, the wizard of watchmaking materials, has made a Novak Djokovic special edition watch made of processed remnants of shirts the athlete has worn and racquets he has played with.
Novak Djokovic wearing the Big Bang Tourbillon Novak Djokovic GOAT Edition, grass version.
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The Big Bang Tourbillon Novak Djokovic GOAT Edition comes in three colours aligned to the colours of tennis’s three playing surfaces.
Each variant is offered in a numbered sequence that corresponds to Djokovic’s wins on each surface: 72 pieces in blue, symbolisng his hard court wins; 21 in orange for his clay court wins; and eight in green for his wins on grass.
And collectors hope he keeps the wins coming: The 101 watches are numbered but not limited. On the occasion of any future win, Hublot will add a further watch, coloured and numbered according to the tournament surface..
The Big Bang Tourbillon Novak Djokovic GOAT Edition comes in three colours aligned to the colours of tennis’s three playing surfaces.
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The mainplate of the Big Bang Tourbillon Novak Djokovic GOAT Edition is designed to resemble a tennis racquet.
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The case is made of a proprietary composite made by Hublot that includes Djokovic’s Lacoste polo shirts and Head tennis racquets in the mix. The lightweight, rigid, marbled material was also used in the Big Bang Unico Novak Djokovic of 2024.
For this series, 12 of the tennis star’s blue polo shirts – four in orange and two in green – were needed to achieve the required volume of material. Twelve racquets were also used. The middle case is made of Titaplast, a polymer with high-performance mechanical properties that are similar to titanium.
Novak Djokovic wearing the Big Bang Tourbillon Novak Djokovic GOAT Edition, clay court version.
Hublot
The rest of the watch is also loaded with tennis iconography:
– The mainplate is designed to resemble a tennis racquet. In place of a traditional, solid mainplate to hold the movement components in place, Hublot’s engineers created a three-dimensional lattice that takes the shape of tennis racquet strings. Each string is just 0.55mm thick and appears to be secured into the mainplate edge by attachment points that echo those found around the inner rim of a tennis racquet. The gaps between the strings are intentionally irregular, as they would be on a tennis racquet mid-match.
The Big Bang Tourbillon Novak Djokovic GOAT Edition, hard court version.
Hublot
– The strap is made of white leather with white stitching that is embossed to appear padded and patterned like the grip tape on one of Novak’s tennis racquets. On the underside, the strap is lined with blue, orange or green leather to match the case. The aluminum tourbillon cage has been anodized in either blue, orange or green so that it also matches.
– The barrel containing the mainspring is topped by a steel cover made to look like a tennis ball that can be seen through the underside of the latticed mainplate. It is lacquered a yellow/green color and given a textured look resembling that of a tennis ball.
– The caseback carries the words “Greatest of All Time” engraved and finished in white lacquer.
– And finally: The six titanium screws that hold the composite bezel in place are shaped like tennis balls.
The Big Bang Tourbillon Novak Djokovic GOAT Edition, clay court version.
Hublot
Among Novak Djokovic’s career statistics are a record 24 Grand Slams, one gold medal at the Olympic Games Paris 2024 and a record 428 weeks as the world number one tennis player. He has ended the year as world number one a record of eight times.
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