Actor & Film Producer — Guardians of the Galaxy | Jurassic World | Parks and Recreation
Chris Pratt's Hublot Square Bang Unico: Star-Lord Wears the Watch That Broke Hublot's Own Rules
Andy Dwyer. Star-Lord. Owen Grady. One of Hollywood's highest-grossing leading men across a remarkable run in the 2010s. Chris Pratt transformed from lovable television ensemble player to billion-dollar franchise anchor in the space of a few years — a career trajectory as bold and unexpected as his watch choice. On his wrist: a Hublot Square Bang Unico — the watch that took Hublot's established circular language and squared it into something more audacious than anything the brand had done before.
| Chris Pratt — Hublot Square Bang Unico on wrist. Source: YouTube |
Hublot Square Bang Unico — skeletonised dial, hexagonal bezel screws, integrated rubber strap |
▶ Source: YouTube
Christopher Michael Pratt was born June 21, 1979, in Virginia, Minnesota, and grew up in Lake Stevens, Washington. His early career was built on television: he joined the cast of Parks and Recreation in 2009 as Andy Dwyer — originally written as a recurring character, expanded to a series regular, and ultimately one of the most beloved figures in the show's seven-season run. The performance demonstrated a quality that would define his subsequent blockbuster work: the ability to be genuinely funny and physically committed simultaneously, with a warmth that made even broad comedy feel earned.
The pivot to franchise cinema was as rapid as any in recent Hollywood history. Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) made him Star-Lord — the mixtape-carrying, irreverent, surprisingly heroic leader of the MCU's most unconventional team — and the film became one of the year's biggest releases. Jurassic World (2015) cast him as Owen Grady opposite Chris Evans' box-office dominance and made him one of the two or three biggest names in action cinema. The two franchises ran concurrently across the rest of the decade: Guardians Vol. 2 (2017), Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018), Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame (2018, 2019), Guardians Vol. 3 (2023). His films have grossed well over ten billion dollars at the worldwide box office. He married Katherine Schwarzenegger in 2019; they have three children.
The Hublot Square Bang Unico on his wrist sits in a watch category — bold, contemporary, technically elaborate — that aligns with the scale of his post-2014 career. It is not a discreet choice. Neither was casting an affable television comedian as the lead of a Marvel space opera.
"His movies have grossed billions worldwide, making him one of Hollywood's highest-grossing leading men during his peak years." — On Chris Pratt's blockbuster career
Timepiece
Hublot Big Bang Square Bang Unico
The Hublot Square Bang was introduced in 2022 as the brand's most significant departure from its own established identity. Hublot has built its reputation on circular cases — the original Big Bang, launched in 2005, defined the brand's aesthetic: a round porthole case with hexagonal bezel screws and a fusion of materials that mixed rubber, carbon, titanium, and ceramic in ways the industry had not previously attempted at this price point. The Square Bang takes every element of that identity — the hexagonal bezel screws, the fusion material philosophy, the integrated rubber strap with quick-release system — and rehouses it in a 42mm square case. The result is either the most logical extension of the Big Bang concept or the most provocative challenge to it, depending on your perspective.
The movement is Hublot's in-house Unico automatic chronograph calibre — visible through a skeletonised or sapphire dial that reveals the architecture of the movement rather than concealing it behind a conventional dial face. The Unico movement features a column-wheel chronograph mechanism and horizontal clutch, with a 72-hour power reserve. Materials available across the Square Bang range include titanium, ceramic, King Gold (Hublot's proprietary 18k rose gold alloy), and carbon fibre, with a variety of dial configurations. The integrated rubber strap uses Hublot's proprietary quick-change system — the strap can be swapped without tools in a matter of seconds. Water resistance is rated to 100 metres.
| Introduced | 2022 — square evolution of the iconic Big Bang |
| Case | 42mm square — titanium, ceramic, King Gold, or carbon fibre |
| Bezel | Hexagonal screws — signature Hublot design language retained from Big Bang |
| Movement | In-house Unico chronograph — automatic, 72-hour power reserve |
| Dial | Skeletonised or sapphire — movement architecture visible |
| Strap | Integrated rubber — quick-change system, tool-free swap |
| Water resistance | 100 metres |
| Price | From approximately $20,000 (titanium) — higher in precious metal variants |
The Square Peg in the Round Hole
Chris Pratt's career is built on the principle of not fitting where you'd expect. Andy Dwyer is not supposed to be the character audiences remember most from an ensemble comedy about municipal government. Star-Lord is not supposed to be the emotional anchor of a franchise built around characters with names like Rocket Raccoon and Groot. A former gas station attendant and Everett, Washington, everyman is not supposed to become one of the most bankable action stars on the planet. Pratt's career has proceeded by repeatedly not being what the context suggested, and being significantly better for it.
The Hublot Square Bang is doing exactly the same thing in its own domain. The Big Bang is circular. Hublot's design language — its bezel screws, its fusion material philosophy, its overall visual grammar — was built around and for a round case. The Square Bang takes all of that and applies it to a geometry the brand had never used, producing something that is simultaneously recognisably Hublot and a departure from everything Hublot had established. It does not fit where you expect a Hublot to fit, and it is more interesting for it. The parallel is not incidental.
The Blockbuster Watch
Hublot has always been the watch of spectacle — bold materials, visible movement architecture, cases that announce themselves before the dial is read. The Square Bang is Hublot at its most committed to that identity: the skeletonised Unico chronograph movement is visible through the dial, the square case gives the hexagonal bezel screws a new geometric context, and the integrated rubber strap ties the whole object together into something that looks like it was designed for a film prop department that was told to make a watch for the lead character of an action franchise. Chris Pratt is that lead character, in multiple franchises, simultaneously. The watch fits the biography with an accuracy that is either deliberate or fortuitous. Spot.Watch is going to note it either way.
And at Spot.Watch — that's always worth noticing.
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