{"id":131,"date":"2011-09-12T12:12:41","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T12:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yachtracing.biz\/life\/?p=131"},"modified":"2011-09-12T12:12:41","modified_gmt":"2011-09-12T12:12:41","slug":"hublot-polo-watc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yachtracing.biz\/life\/2011\/09\/hublot-polo-watc\/","title":{"rendered":"Hublot Design Watch for ‘Super-Exclusive’ Polo Fans"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The sport of sailing sometimes has a problem with being elitist and exclusive, but polo has no such problems. As the America’s Cup<\/a> dumbs down for a wider audience, brands like Hublot, who have sponsored the America’s Cup in the past, are not afraid to\u00a0align\u00a0themselves with the polo crowd.<\/p>\n

The Swiss luxury watch-maker<\/a> has launched a new limited-edition timepiece inspired by the sport of Polo called the\u00a0Chukker Bang.<\/p>\n

Limited to just 500 individually-numbered pieces, the watch was created to mark the 2011 Polo Gold Cup tournament that took place in Gstaad, Switzerland late last month.\u00a0Hublot were the main sponsors of the “ultra-exclusive” sporting event, which draws high profile society figures, as well as some of the world\u2019s best polo players, each year.<\/p>\n

Named after the word ‘chuka’ – a term used for a single period of play in Polo \u2013 the watch features a 44mm wide casing with titanium grilling which can be removed to increase exposure of the dial. A hand polished sapphire crystal bezel, renowned for its resistance to wear and tear, is also included, whilst 50 more rubies are stored on the inside.<\/p>\n

Other notable features include an automatic chronograph movement, a beige-coloured calf skin leather strap with ecru stitching, and sailing fans – don’t fear that this is a landlubber’s watch – it has a water resistance of 100 metres.<\/p>\n

If you want to get your hands on one of these upper-class timepieces, deliveries of the Hublot Chukker Bang will begin worldwide in October. America’s Cup fans might want to stick the the cheap Louis Vuitton models – the Hublot will set you back around \u20ac13,200<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The sport of sailing sometimes has a problem with being elitist and exclusive, but polo has no such problems. As the America’s Cup dumbs down for a wider audience, brands like Hublot, who have sponsored the America’s Cup in the past, are not afraid to\u00a0align\u00a0themselves with the polo crowd. The Swiss luxury watch-maker has launched […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[167],"tags":[171,168,498,170,53,172,169],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-luxury","tag-chukker-bang","tag-hublot","tag-luxury","tag-polo","tag-switzerland","tag-timepiece","tag-watches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yachtracing.biz\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yachtracing.biz\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yachtracing.biz\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yachtracing.biz\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yachtracing.biz\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/yachtracing.biz\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135,"href":"http:\/\/yachtracing.biz\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions\/135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yachtracing.biz\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yachtracing.biz\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yachtracing.biz\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}