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WOTW Time Machine: Jhonattan Vegas’s Hublot Big Bang Ferrari Carbon from the 2016 RBC Canadian
Nick Taylor gave us an amazing show this weekend at the RBC Canadian Open, but unfortunately he wasn’t wearing a watch after his win. So, we will jump into the Time Machine to look at the Hublot Big Bang that Jhonattan Vegas was wearing when he won the event in 2016.
WOTW Specs
Watch: Hublot Big Bang UNICO Ferrari Carbon
Reference: 401.NJ.0123.VR
Limited: 1,000 Pieces
Case: Titanium & Carbon Fiber
Bezel: Carbon Fiber
Size: 45mm
Movement: Calibre HUB1241, 38 Jewels
Power Reserve: 72 hours
Glass: Saphire Crystal
Water Resistance: 100 Meters
Bracelet: Grey Leather & Rubber Strap
Price: ~$17,000
Hublot watches have been featured on here a few times, but not recently. The brand is very young, founded in 1980, by watch standards and their designs tend to push boundaries more than others. Hublot is the French word for “porthole” and you can see that design through the bezel on most of the watches in the line. The brand was started by Carlo Crocco and he added Jean-Claude Biver as the CEO in 2004. That was the time that the Big Bang watches were first introduced and taking Hublot from $24 million in sales to $100 million. The brand was purchased in 2008 by LVMH (LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton), adding to its list of watch brands.
Hublot partnered with Ferrari in 2011 and was a sponsor of their F1 racing team until 2021 when Richard Mille took over that spot. During that time Hublot created a few different Ferrari named, and inspired, watches. We have looked into Patrick Reed’s White Carbon Big Bang a few years ago here on WOTW. For Vegas he went with something a little less flashy, the Big Bang Ferrari Carbon that is done in a more traditional silver and black colorway.
The case is large at 45mm and made from Grade 5 Titanium with a carbon fiber center section. The caseback has a sapphire crystal window to view in the movement and is held in place with 6 screws. On the right side of the case is the crown and the pushers for running the chronograph. The bottom pusher contains the Ferrari logo etched in it and filled with red lacquer paint. On top of the case is the legendary, round Hublot bezel that is crafted from carbon fiber and infused with titanium, then held in place with 6 titanium H screws. The dial is sapphire crystal to give it the skeleton look.
Skeleton dials are clear so you can see the internal workings of the movement. A single subdial sits at 3 o’clock with a 60 minute counter and it also contains the date window. The date window has a transparent yellow back to it that takes its style from the gauges on a Ferrari dashboard. Ferrari’s prancing horse logo sits at 6 o’clock and is polished silver but blends in well with the rest of the mechanical-looking dial.
Inside the Big Bang Ferrari Carbon is Hublot’s Caliber UNICO HUB 1241 mechanical movement. The 1241 is a self-winding movement that runs on 38 jewels and offers the wearer around 72 hours of power reserve. The movement contains 330 parts and uses a ceramic rotor bearings to run smoother and require less maintenance. While sublet has taken some criticism over movements, this one was completely designed and built in-house by Hublot. The strap is made from vulcanized rubber with grey leather stitched to it. The small button on the lugs of the case allow for the quick release of the strap. Each end of the rubber strap has a metal clip that snaps into the case for easy changing if you want. Since there were only 1,000 pieces made for the entire world, not many are for sale to gauge a good price on. From what I can tell you could get one of these in good condition for just under $17,000 on the secondary market.
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Tour Rundown: Surprise USWO winner | Sepp surges
I know it’s not the tour, and I know it’s a shell of its 1912 US Open self, but a 59 in a legitimate tournament is a thing. The Erie County (NY) Amateur was played at the course where I learned the game, and a collegiate named Ryan Edholm posted 59 on Sunday, to win by eight shots. I was glued to the feed, and jumped up when I saw them finalize the score.
To the tours! The USGA celebrated its Women’s Open championship at storied Pebble Beach Golf Links this week, and the USA was treated to prime-time golf viewing for a second consecutive, national championship. Neither the competitors nor the golf course disappointed, and it is a pleasure to provide an extended look at the tournament. The PGA Tour visited TPC Deere Run in Illinois, while the DP World Tour found a home in Denmark. Let’s have a look at how each event concluded, with this week’s Tour Rundown.
USGA/LPGA: Corpuz arrives from nowhere to claim United States Open title
If you hurry up and check Allisen Corpuz’s wiki page, you’ll see the one professional win on her record is the Hawaii Women’s State Open. Venerable an event as it is, it’s not an LPGA-calibre title, nor even a Symetra Tour win. Even more important, she won that event when she was all of 16 years of age, so she wasn’t even a pro! After schooling at Southern Cal and a stint on the 2021 USA Curtis Cup side, Corpuz turned pro, and earned two top-three finishes in her first two years on tour.
Forgive us for a moment if we talk about that other wain who won her first tour event in her first tour start. Yup, Rose Zhang was at Pebble Beach, but she only finished one-over par and only tied for 9th position. What did Corpuz do? She won the whole thing, lock, stock and barrel. Corpuz began the week 69-70 to not only make the cut, but earn herself a final-pair spot with Bailey Tardy on Saturday. While Tardy struggled to a 75, AC held it together and posted a fine 71. Her reward was a second-consecutive day in the final duo, this time with the on-fire Nasa Hataoka. Hataoka delivered a 66, the only score below 70 on the day. That’s one hot round.
Hataoka had been here before. She finished runner-up in two other major championships, and was eager to shelve the mantel of almost and replace it with certain. Sunday was not her day, however, and she struggled to five bogeys and a birdie, a 76, and a tie for fourth with the aforementioned Bailey Tardy. Tardy came back from her 75 with a 73, earning a top-five major placement.
Back to Corpuz. The lass from Honolulu made six birdies on the day. She began with stroke-savers on holes one and three, then made bogeys at four and nine, along with another birdie at seven. She turned in one-under 35, and began to put distance between herself and the field. Then came Charley Hull, and things began to change.
Hull found the same flint that Hataoka encountered on day three. The English pro made birdie at four of her first five holes, and turned in 32. Three birdies against one bogey on the inward half gave her a 66, the low round of the day. Her reward was a tie for second spot with another Sunday Queen, Jiyai Shin of Korea. Shin signed for 68 and reached the same, 6-under par total as Hull. No one, on this day, would track Allisen down.
Corpuz put the doubters to bed with three birdies over the first seven holes on the vaunted, back nine at Pebble Beach. A meaningless bogey at 17 meant that her margin of victory was reduced to three strokes. After safely walking the final fairway, Corpuz was an LPGA tour winner, a major champion and, in all likelihood, a member of Team USA in Spain’s 2023 Solheim Cup matches.
What pressure?
Allisen Corpuz is putting on a historic performance at Pebble Beach
Watch now on NBC! pic.twitter.com/6fzRYGPVYa
— LPGA (@LPGA) July 9, 2023
PGA Tour: Straka survives double bogey at last for second tour title
Josef Straka (no intel on how he earned the nickname “Sepp”) had golf social media ablaze this afternoon. He turned for home in 28 shots, and still had more in the tank. His front-nine eagle and five birdies were followed by four consecutive chirps from 11 to 14. Folks were talking 60, 59, 58. All that the boy from Austria had to do, was dock the boat. Well, he didn’t, finding water on 18 and a double bogey. He finished four days in Silvia at 21-under par, and didn’t think for a moment, that it would hold up.
Until it did. Neither Brendan Todd nor Alex Smalley could close with anything spicey, and Ludvig Aberg started too far back for his 63 to give him a shot. Todd and Smalley tied for second at 19-under par, with the precocious Aberg another stroke back, tied for 4th with Adam Schenk. It was Straka in the end, whose final-round 62 held up. Now, it’s off to Scotland for many, as preparations begin for the Open Championship at Royal Liverpool.
This man can not miss.@SeppStraka needs to shoot 1-under in his final four holes for a round below 60 @JDClassic. pic.twitter.com/5mYhLtu84e
— PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) July 9, 2023
DP World Tour: Second Chance for Højgaard in home country
Rasmus Højgaard did nothing right down the stretch of the Made in HimmerLand stop on the DPWT. He finished well ahead of the leaders, and began to applaud his home-country fans for their presence. Then, Nacho Elvira and Richie Ramsey forgot how to finish the tournament, and just like that, Højgaard found himself in a playoff with Elvira for the title. We’ll get to the playoff (all six holes of it) in a moment. How did we get there?
Højgaard had himself a weekend, to the tune of 65-64. For a time, he thought that his 129 over the final two days would earn him a top-three finish, until tires started falling off. Elvira played his final six holes in plus-one, with three bogeys against two birdies. Robert MacIntyre stood three-under on the day, when his tee shot on 14 nearly went OOB. Six shots later, he posted a triple bogey on his card, added another bogey, and missed overtime by two shots. For Richie Ramsay, the knife cut the deepest. He had quietly worked his way to the top spot, only to see all his day’s efforts undone with a watery double at the 72nd hole. He finished solo third.
So it was left to the astonished Højgaard and the Spanish Elvira, to settle matters on the 18th hole … and the 18th hole … and the 18th hole again. Six times they returned to the final teeing ground, and five times, each man made par. On the sixth go-round, Elvira cracked and Rasmus claimed his fourth DPWT title. Three have come in playoffs — Luke Donald, you paying attention?
Shots of the week from Made in HimmerLand ?#MIH23 | @DP_World pic.twitter.com/deVZZStyEI
— DP World Tour (@DPWorldTour) July 9, 2023
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