Hublot Aero Bang Drive ACF limited edition chronograph

The new Hublot Aero Bang Drive ACF limited edition chronograph watch is created in partnership with the well-known l’Automobile Club de France, which is claimed to be the oldest automobile club in the whole world.

Well, this is not exactly a completely new watch, since the Hublot Aero Bang was officially presented last year and enjoyed rave reviews from the people that like this kind of design.

Even I liked the watch a lot, although I must admit that now I am a kind of cooling off to this design language: there is just too much Bang in this Aero.

Available in a modest (by Hublot’s standards, of course) 44.5 mm case made of micro blasted black ceramic and resin, the Hublot Aero Bang Drive ACF features the three ACF colors: blue, gray and red. The dark blue colored luminescent substance covers all its hour indices, as well as parts of the open-worked hour and minute hands and even the small hands on all three chronograph totalizers.

Even the watch’s sapphire crystal is marked with ACF’s logo, which is placed right above the small seconds sub-dial slightly detracting from the timekeeper’s legibility.

As you can see on the photo above, the limited edition watch features quite an unusual layout with its winding crown and chronograph push-pieces located at the left side (the original watch has the elements located on the usual place at the right side of the case.) Not sure about normal people, but the design would great for natural-born lefties and those who are used to wear a timepiece on their right hands.

Like, for example, Mr. Putin who seems to be especially fond of expensive Swiss timekeepers.

The watch is powered by the same HUB4200 in-house movement that comes inside all Aero Bang watches. The heavily skeletonized caliber has a power reserve of pretty average 42 hours and consists of 252 parts and 27 jewels.

The whole series is limited to mere 250 pieces.

Photos: Hublot

Hublot Aero Bang Drive ACF limited edition chronograph watch specification

Price range: N/A
Movement: HUB4200, automatic, 27 jewels, Tungsten carbide oscillating weight with black PVD treated dimpled surface
Complications: Chronograph
Power reserve: 42 hours
Case material: Microblasted black ceramic
Case size: 44.5 mm
Case height: N/A
Dial: Black, skeletonized
Water resistance: 100 m
Strap: Alligator-resin leather strap
Crystal: Sapphire, AR-coated