Under the official timekeeping of Hublot, the 27th edition of Europe’s highest altitude polo tournament was held on August 23rd – 25th at one of the Bernese Alps’ most prestigious resort. Players and horses went head-to-head against a dramatic backdrop of Swiss mountains.
Amid the majestic, snow-capped Alpine peaks lies a verdant valley, nestled at an altitude of 1000 metres, through which a lively river runs. It was here, on a cancha (the name given to the polo fields) specially created on the grass at Gstaad-Saanenland airport, that the public was treated to a unique spectacle of polo.
Max Charlton, Nacho Gonzales, Philipp Mueller, and Jaime Robert from the winning team were each awarded a Hublot Big Bang Original Steel Ceramic model engraved with the words “Hublot Polo Gold Cup Gstaad Winner” and equipped with the MHUB4100 chronograph movement, a self-winding Manufacture calibre with a 42-hour power reserve.
Ambassadors and Friends of the Brand were in attendance, including sprint champion and Friend of the Brand Mujinga Kambundji. The Swiss athlete joined the crowd of elegant spectators taking to the field between each chukker to replace the clods of earth and tufts of grass raked up by the horses’ hooves during the matches, a time-honoured polo tradition that has been the subject of memorable scenes in Hollywood cinema.