HYT Watches Review

HYT Watches Review

HYT Watches Review

The entire year is 2012 the area

Baselworld’s Palace annex, where small, independent and frequently off-beat watch companies show their wares. Executives from the new Swiss watch company are holding a press conference to unveil their new creation. It’s a wrist watch unlike every other: it shows the hrs not via hands or digits but by fluorescent eco-friendly liquid moving via a slender glass tube.

Their name is HYT. Its Chief executive officer is Vincent Perriard. Most journalists within the audience know him from his past posts at TechnoMarine and Concord, and, before that, Hamilton and Audemars Piguet. Also on hands are HYT’s chairman and co-founder, a business owner named Patrick Berdoz, and board member and co-founder Lucien Vouillamoz, the inventor from the liquid time-telling system.

The journalists see a video showing the liquid

HYT Watches Review

Really two fluids, one antifreeze eco-friendly and yet another without color, moving with the tube underneath the propulsion of a set of pistons in the 6 o’clock position around the watch face. The fluid moves mysteriously, as though by magic. The hour is shown by the positioning of the meniscus, the dividing line where the 2 fluids meet.

This “fluidic module,” as HYT calls it, is wedded to some movement that forces the pistons and supports a minutes display at 12 o’clock, a seconds wheel between 9 and 10 o’clock, along with a power-reserve display between 2 and three o’clock. The movement was created through the high-finish, avant-garde movement maker Chronode.

Much buzz ensues. The H1, because the watch is famous, becomes probably the most spoken-about introductions in the fair everyone, it appears, uses a look at HYT’s crazy concoction. The chatter doesn’t finish with Baselworld: later that year, the timepiece wins the innovation prize within the annual Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève competition.

But there is one problem

As HYT discovered right after the launch. The timepiece didn’t work. The organization delivered 20 or 25 pieces, then stopped production. The H1 was delivered back towards the lab.