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Lot Essay
As a watchmaker that specializes in hydro-mechanical timepieces displaying the time via liquids in tiny glass tubes, HYT is very well known for its avant-garde mechanical wristwatches.
The present watch is a unique bespoke model H3. The HYT H3 was developed together with Renaud & Papi and equipped with a linear fluid display, jump hour and retrograde seconds, an extraordinary timepiece which uses the most technologically advanced mechanisms developed by science for horology.
The H3 model was the third and most complicated timepiece by HYT, and tells the time linearly, in other words, both the hours and minutes are indicated on a straight line. Using fascinating technology, a thin glass tube filled with two liquids, originally developed by HYT for its H1, shows the time at the meeting point line of the two fluids, a bright green water mix and the other a clear oil. The liquid travels from left to right, driven by a pair of bellows at the top of the movement. The glass tube just above beside a horizontal column of cubes with the hours, that rotates four times a day, a kind of slow moving and highly complicated jump hour mechanism. Each face of the column, made up of six cubes, shows six hour numerals at a time. At the end of the hour track the hour column jumps, and the liquid quickly retreats to the starting point. A temperature compensator has been built into the mechanism that drives the fluids, positioned in between the two bellows. This accounts for any expansion or contraction in the volume of the liquid, ensuring the time display is correct regardless of ambient temperatures.
The minutes are indicated by a retrograde hand travelling in the same direction as the liquid. The minutes are printed on a clear sapphire disc, with the white tip of the minutes hand pointing the time. The minute hand travels on two axes, one at the end of the hand and another for the base carrying the hand. This is necessary because of the narrow space for the minute display, it therefore allows the minute hand to travel a long distance horizontal, while minimising the vertical distance travelled.
The sapphire case back reveals the twin barrels of the movement, which give it a 170 hour, or seven day, power reserve, indicated on a scale at 12 o’clock.
HYT
HYT are watches that are futuristic not only in their technology but also in their design. The company creates watches using incredible concept of using liquid to indicate time. Founded by Swiss entrepreneur Patrick Berdoz, along with three partners--including nuclear engineer Lucien Vouillamoz, who developed the innovative fluid system over 15 years, HYT has become famous as the watch brand for hydromechanical timepieces.
The present watch is a unique bespoke model H3. The HYT H3 was developed together with Renaud & Papi and equipped with a linear fluid display, jump hour and retrograde seconds, an extraordinary timepiece which uses the most technologically advanced mechanisms developed by science for horology.
The H3 model was the third and most complicated timepiece by HYT, and tells the time linearly, in other words, both the hours and minutes are indicated on a straight line. Using fascinating technology, a thin glass tube filled with two liquids, originally developed by HYT for its H1, shows the time at the meeting point line of the two fluids, a bright green water mix and the other a clear oil. The liquid travels from left to right, driven by a pair of bellows at the top of the movement. The glass tube just above beside a horizontal column of cubes with the hours, that rotates four times a day, a kind of slow moving and highly complicated jump hour mechanism. Each face of the column, made up of six cubes, shows six hour numerals at a time. At the end of the hour track the hour column jumps, and the liquid quickly retreats to the starting point. A temperature compensator has been built into the mechanism that drives the fluids, positioned in between the two bellows. This accounts for any expansion or contraction in the volume of the liquid, ensuring the time display is correct regardless of ambient temperatures.
The minutes are indicated by a retrograde hand travelling in the same direction as the liquid. The minutes are printed on a clear sapphire disc, with the white tip of the minutes hand pointing the time. The minute hand travels on two axes, one at the end of the hand and another for the base carrying the hand. This is necessary because of the narrow space for the minute display, it therefore allows the minute hand to travel a long distance horizontal, while minimising the vertical distance travelled.
The sapphire case back reveals the twin barrels of the movement, which give it a 170 hour, or seven day, power reserve, indicated on a scale at 12 o’clock.
HYT
HYT are watches that are futuristic not only in their technology but also in their design. The company creates watches using incredible concept of using liquid to indicate time. Founded by Swiss entrepreneur Patrick Berdoz, along with three partners--including nuclear engineer Lucien Vouillamoz, who developed the innovative fluid system over 15 years, HYT has become famous as the watch brand for hydromechanical timepieces.