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Top Ten Hotel Openings of 2009

Hotels shutting their glass and filigree doors or going into some form of financial distress could have made more of this year's new than new openings; still, the quantity and quality of newly available suites to call your own felt just as stellar as in better years past. Sure, we didn't get the J line of hotels (yet), but we did get the Bardessono -- and 82 geothermal wells and hand-loomed Coyuchi linens are probably as good as anything Jay Z had to offer. Whittled to just ten, with the help of our friends over at TabletHotels.com, in no particular order here are Luxist's top openings of 2009...

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Hublot Big Bang Polo Club St. Tropez Watch

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

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This big white beauty is the new Big Bang Polo Club St. Tropez watch from Hublot. The 44 mm watch is done in steel with a white ceramic bezel and a white dial. The watch was made to celebrate the opening of Hublot's new St. Tropez store (their second single brand store in France). The movement is the Hublot calibre HUB44 developed with La Joux-Perret. The white theme continues with a lug disc in white resin, lateral inserts in white resin and a steel crown and push pieces that are steel with white rubber inserts. The only color comes from the Polo Club Saint-Tropez logo in blue on the dial. The watch has a strap that is a fusion of alligator skin and rubber with a steel deploying clasp and is a limited edition of 250.

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