What does this very expensive watch have to do with Bitcoin?

Well, quite a lot actually. Here’s what you need to know about the Hublot Big Bang Unico Ledger watch, with a touch of Bitcoin.

Luxury brand Hublot has entered into a partnership with Ledger. The latter may not mean anything to you, but Ledger is a well-known company that sells hardware solutions to keep your cryptocurrency safe and offline. Together, the two parties have come up with a beautiful watch. The Hublot Big Bang Unico Ledger. The watch harks back to the time when mankind first started paying with coins.

The exchange principle of ancient times was once adopted by paying with silver and gold. The foundation of the money system we work with today. A piece of gold and silver is incorporated in the casing of the Big Bang Unico Ledger watch. In addition, the Bitcoin motto is engraved in Latin on the bezel of the timepiece. Vires in Numbers, which means something like power in numbers. Ledger has always used the saying on the company’s hardware wallets.

Hublot Big Bang Unico Ledger

The Big Bang Unico Ledger is 42mm in size and will be made in an edition of only 50 pieces. And it is an ordinary mechanical watch. No offline hardware wallet where you can store Bitcoin, if you sometimes think so. But with the purchase of the watch, the box does contain a unique Ledger & Hublot Nano X wallet to store your crypto. The watch was available through Hublot for more than 25,000 euros for a copy, but all watches are now sold out.