HYT has been asking itself what its watches would look like if they had been made in the 18th century. The result is the H2 Tradition, with the same H2 fluid engineering as in the original H2 watch launched in 2013, with hours shown by blue fluid in a capillary tube and driven by two…
The H2 Aviator by HYT doesn’t look anything like a pilot’s watch, or even an aviation watch. It looks very much like an H2. Which is only natural. But it’s an indication of the remarkable interest that brands are showing in aviation watches, with beautiful pieces by Patek Philippe (their first ever foray into aviation)…
HYT have presented three new versions of their hydromechanical watch H1, three limited editions that are part of their objectives for 2015, namely for 13 new watches and presumably an increase on the 450 watches that they sold in 2014. These three are all large watches, at 48.8 mm diameter and 17.9 mm thickness, with…
HYT’s concept of watches with a fluid displaying the time in a capillary is original and a lot more complex than meets the eye. One of the problems that they had was that a coloured liquid tends to deposit colour on the walls of the capillary tube, which would of course defeat the purpose of…
Company profile: The original concept for HYT’s idea of watches in which time is indicated by two imiscible liquids driven by two bellows was devised by Lucien Vouillamoz in about 2002. A few years later, he was working with Patrick Berdoz and Emmanuel Savioz on the areas of patents and finance, and the first prototype…
It is very refreshing to see from time to time a watch that operates using a completely new system and a new way of displaying time. HYT pioneered the use of displaying the hours with coloured fluid in a capillary tube, pumped around by a pair of bellows, in their H1 and H2 watches. H3,…
Not so in the H1 Sand Barth by HYT, the latest version of their hydo-horological movement. In this piece that evokes a tropical beach – lovely thought in the northern hemisphere at this chilly time of year – the case in transparent polyepoxyde contains a sprinkle of sand from the Anse du Gouverneur beach at…
The H1 by HYT was one of the highlights of Baselworld 2012, and it has been followed by the H2 and by colour variants of H1. The latest is the HYT1 Dracula, in which the fluid used to indicate the hours is tinted red. H1 is an interesting combination of a mechanical movement and a…