One day before the ‘big match’ against Chelsea, 7 May 2011 at 6 pm, all the first team of MANCHESTER UNITED gathered on the club’s home ground for a special occasion: the launching ceremony of KING POWER RED DEVIL, the third edition of the official Manchester United timepiece by Swiss luxury watchmaker, HUBLOT. This is to pay homage to the legendary football club – founded in 1878, having won 19 league titles, four League Cups, a record 11 FA Cups, and three UEFA Champions League trophies, as well as highlighting the committed partnership between Manchester United and Hublot since 2008. At the hallowed turf of Old Trafford, Jean Claude-Biver, the CEO of Hublot Company presented the watches to Ryan Giggs, Wayne Rooney, Javier “Chicarito” Hernandez, Dimitar Berbatov, Paul Scholes, Nemanja Vidic, Michael Owen, Edwin Van Der Sar, Park Ji Sung and others.
What’s new?
Distinguished from the previous versions, the new series includes the real blades of grass from Old Trafford in its design. Picked and preserved by the club’s grounds-men especially for making this limited edition watches, the grass were stabilized by Hublot for six months. The long development process was to maintain the grasses’ original color as well as protect them against UV and temperature differences. The freeze-dried blades of grass were then inserted into the indexes through an all-new way before they were coated with a special transparent lacquer to secure them permanently. The natural grass-green-colored indexes are the focal point of the timepiece as well as to mark the Old Trafford’s more than one hundred year-old turf (the Theatre of Dreams – scene of so many victories, so much thrill and effort – has been the United’s permanent residence since1910).
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