It is mid-summer in the Northern Hemisphere, and Hublot is bringing the beach party with two new boutiques in the glitzy French coastal towns of Cannes and Saint-Tropez along the famously glamorous French Riviera, or Côte d’Azur. You already see where this is going, right? The new boutiques have been outfitted with a beachy and nautical design featuring azure blue facades – and the new, simply named Hublot Big Bang Blue limited edition watch in a blue ceramic case thematically follows suit.

Blue continues to be a popular color for watches, and the Hublot Watches Highest Price Big Bang Blue is one of the bluest watches out there. It comes in a familiar 45mm Big Bang case made out of mostly blue ceramic with polished sides and micro-blasted top surfaces. And it also features white composite resin inserts on the sides. Like the case, the bezel is also blue ceramic polished on the sides and micro-blasted on the top to create a matte kind of look and finish. The bezel is held in place with polished titanium H-shaped screws. The crown and pushers are all made out satin-finished titanium. Water-resistance is 100m and the watch will come with two strap choices: white and blue rubber or white rubber with blue alligator leather.

The dial is skeletonized and features the usual dial configuration of other Hublot Watches Green Big Bang watches: running seconds at 9 o’clock and 60-minute chronograph counter at 3 o’clock. The hands and applied hour indexes are rhodium-plated and satin-finished and filled with white luminescent material for legibility in low-light conditions. There’s an inconspicuous date window at 3 o’clock and surrounding the dial is a blue flange marked with the minutes.

It was the birth of a Big Bang chronograph which was launched in the Baselworld 2005, reaching instant success and document orders that finally led to the brand’s explosive growth. The superb quality of the timepiece was likewise recognized by the professionals that given it for the Best Design at the Grand Prix d’Horlogerie p Genève.Next year, Hublot introduced with a Big Bang ALL BLACK model, however, 2007 was truly successful for the renowned watchmaker. It arrived with a gorgeous One Million $ Big Bang, a jewellery timepiece completely gem-set with diamonds that later that year won the Jewelry Watch Prize at the 2007 Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève. There was likewise the first Big Bang Diver timepiece having an oversize 48mm case.The year 2008 was pronounced with the shift of the proprietor. Nevertheless led by Jean-Claude Biver and Ricardo Guadalupe, Hublot achieved the record growth in the following period. It presented the first Big Bang exclusively designed for girls with the diameter of 38mm, along with a gem-set bezel, in addition to a fresh Classic Fusion Collection which gave an elegant note to the distinctive sporty style of Hublot’s watches.Staying faithful to its fundamental philosophy, Hublot produced a brand new King Power Collection in 2009. With bold sporty design and a powerful construction, the fusion of different materials obtained the new dimension.

To be honest, looking at the press photos here, it looks like the Hublot Watches How Much Big Bang Blue’s brushed hands against its skeletonized dial might not be the strongest for legibility – even though Hublot has often been known to get this right. But as they say, telling the time on a lifestyle statement watch like this is probably only a secondary consideration. Additionally, what you lose in legibility you gain in being able to see the inner workings of the watch. The skeletonized dial means some of the going train is visible and so is the column-wheel, and seeing those things in action, especially when you activate the chronograph, is pretty cool.

The movement is Hublot’s trusty HUB1242, which is used in many other Hublot Big Bang watches. It is in-house-made and is a self-winding chronograph movement with a flyback mechanism. It consists of 330 components, beats at 4Hz, and has a respectable power reserve of 72 hours. The movement is visible through the watch’s sapphire display case back.

While blue dials have been popular for a while now, fully blue watches like the Hublot Big Bang Blue are naturally less common. And despite its name, the Hublot Big Bang Blue is not the first blue limited edition Big Bang watch – some of the Hublot Big Bang Unico Italia Independent watches (hands-on here), for instance were pretty blue as well. The Hublot Big Bang Blue is limited to just 100 pieces, priced at $21,500, and will initially be available at Hublot’s “summer boutiques.” hublot.com