Hublot is among the newest manufacturers of great timepieces, having begun in 1980 by Carlo Crocco. The Replica Hublot watch was gold with a normal white rubber straps – the first natural black rubber strap in watchmaking. The achievements in this watch laid the building blocks for Hublot’s overall ascension in the world of watchmaking. By the mid 1990s rubber became a popular material for watch straps. Hublot remains to be an impartial family-run watchmaking corporation that just makes japanese replica watches, many of which are made in limited versions.