HAUTLENCE – HLXX Jumping Hours and Retrograde Minutes Titanium 20th Anniversary Limited Edition 2024
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A TV-shaped case, a jumping hours disk, and a retrograde minutes hand—these were the stars of HAUTLENCE’s first horological venture, dubbed simply the HL. 20 years later, the result of this unexpected and unprecedented combination has proven to be just as outlandish, singular, and captivating as ever. Using the original HL movement that made its debut in 2004, HAUTLENCE has redesigned the TV-shaped case as well as the dial for a special 20-piece anniversary edition. The HLXX bridges the past, present, and future of HAUTLENCE.
An evocative form
Few case shapes from the 21st century are as outstanding and immediately identifiable as HAUTLENCE’s TV-shaped case. Rectangular with rounded sides and sharply faceted corners, the TV case is instantly recognizable for its unique form. For the 20th anniversary edition of the original HL, HAUTLENCE has revisited the overall silhouette and proportions to be much closer to that of the original with a few modern upgrades. Crafted in light yet tough grade 5 titanium, the HLXX’s case measures 37.0 x 45.0 x 11.75 mm (10.5 mm without sapphire crystal), with a water resistance of 10 ATM (100 meters).
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To give it a more streamlined look and feel, the case has no visible lugs. Instead, it features a quick-release system for the strap integrated directly onto the case back. The titanium deployant buckle comes with a quick-adjustment mechanism to quickly swap the black rubber cordura-effect strap without any tools.
To give it a more streamlined look and feel, the case has no visible lugs. Instead, it features a quick-release system for the strap integrated directly onto the case back. The titanium deployant buckle comes with a quick-adjustment mechanism to quickly swap the black rubber cordura-effect strap without any tools.
Time-telling as a canvas
With a case shaped like a television, it’s only natural that whatever it’s showing inside is wholly engaging and mesmerizing. The HLXX takes a deconstructed approach to tell the time, where the hours and minutes occupy their own portions of the open dial with a silvery rhodium color and vertical satin-brushed surface, marking their passage in completely different ways.
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The jumping hour of the HLXX is characterized by superimposed disks on the left side, where a fixed tinted sapphire crystal disk features an aperture that displays the current hour on a jumping hour disk, with Arabic hour numerals in Super-LumiNova®. The top disk with concentric lines recalls a key design element of the most recent Vagabonde series.
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The jumping hour of the HLXX is characterized by superimposed disks on the left side, where a fixed tinted sapphire crystal disk features an aperture that displays the current hour on a jumping hour disk, with Arabic hour numerals in Super-LumiNova®. The top disk with concentric lines recalls a key design element of the most recent Vagabonde series.
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Inspired by locomotives, the lever system visible from the dial side connects a snail-cam with the blued retrograde minutes hand and jumping-hour switching mechanism, allowing them to advance simultaneously at the end of each hour. Taking a cue from HAUTLENCE’s more recent creations, the curved retrograde minutes track in tinted sapphire features applied numerals crafted in Globolight®, a ceramic material infused with Super-LumiNova® that HAUTLENCE has extensively featured in its more recent creations, including the Linear and Sphere. Finally, the HLXX takes a page from the HL2 with a rotating Möbius logo as a way to show that the watch is running and that time is naturally fleeting.
HL Calibre: last of its kind
Driving this highly animated spectacle of time is the HAUTLENCE A20 caliber, a form-fitting TV-shaped manual winding movement with which HAUTLENCE began its adventures 20 years ago. The balance wheel can be seen through the jumping hour disk as well as the case back. Its single barrel provides a minimum power reserve of 40 hours.
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And just because it’s unusual doesn’t make the HL any less of an “Haute Horlogerie” creation. The bridges are decorated with wide côtes-de-Genève stripes as well as beveled and polished edges. The way the bridges are shaped and separated recalls the brand’s Möbius logo. And as a finishing touch to this anniversary edition, a screwed plaque adjacent to the ratchet wheel marks its distinction as the anniversary limited edition.
The HLXX celebrates this monumental milestone for HAUTLENCE, a brand that has been at the vanguard of imaginative and creative watchmaking since 2004. The HLXX is a limited edition of 20 pieces and marks the final time that the original HL caliber will be used.
HAUTLENCE – Forging the path for avant-garde independent watchmaking since 2004.
Movement
Calibre A20 hand-wound movement, original HL caliber
Jumping hours and retrograde minutes
Power reserve: minimum of 72 hours
Regulating organ: 21,600 vibrations / hour a frequency of 3Hz
Number of components: 156
Number of jewels: 29
Case
Case middle, bezel, and crown: satin-finished and polished grade 5 titanium
TV-shaped titanium case
And just because it’s unusual doesn’t make the HL any less of an “Haute Horlogerie” creation. The bridges are decorated with wide côtes-de-Genève stripes as well as beveled and polished edges. The way the bridges are shaped and separated recalls the brand’s Möbius logo. And as a finishing touch to this anniversary edition, a screwed plaque adjacent to the ratchet wheel marks its distinction as the anniversary limited edition.
The HLXX celebrates this monumental milestone for HAUTLENCE, a brand that has been at the vanguard of imaginative and creative watchmaking since 2004. The HLXX is a limited edition of 20 pieces and marks the final time that the original HL caliber will be used.
HAUTLENCE – Forging the path for avant-garde independent watchmaking since 2004.
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Technical Specifications
Movement
Calibre A20 hand-wound movement, original HL caliber
Jumping hours and retrograde minutes
Power reserve: minimum of 72 hours
Regulating organ: 21,600 vibrations / hour a frequency of 3Hz
Number of components: 156
Number of jewels: 29
Case
Case middle, bezel, and crown: satin-finished and polished grade 5 titanium
TV-shaped titanium case
Case middle and horns: Satin-finished and polished
Dimensions of 437.0 x 45.8 x 11.75 mm / 10.9 mm without sapphire crystal
Bezel: satin-finished and polished steelwith midnight blue PVD coating
Crown: Polished steel with blue PVD coating and blue rubber ring; engraved HAUTLENCE logo
Bezel: satin-finished and polished steel
Crown: Polished steel with blue PVD coating and blue rubber ring; engraved HAUTLENCE logo
Glass: extra-hard bevelled sapphire crystal with anti-reflective treatment
Back: sapphire crystal engraved with “HAUTLENCE”, “10 ATM”, “Suisse”; excluding sapphire crystal
Water resistance: 10 ATM
Dial
Back: sapphire crystal engraved with “HAUTLENCE”, “10 ATM”, “Suisse”; excluding sapphire crystal
Water resistance: 10 ATM
Dial
Skeletonized and rhodium-plated base dial with vertical satin finishing
Jumping hours and retrograde minutes
3D Globolight® indexes
Intermediate dial: Sapphire with applied minute numerals in Globolight®
Jumping hours and retrograde minutes
3D Globolight® indexes
Intermediate dial: Sapphire with applied minute numerals in Globolight®
Strap
Black rubber
Buckle: grade 5 titanium
Black rubber
Buckle: grade 5 titanium
🔰 Edition – Limited edition 28 pieces
🔴Price 36'000 CHF💰 --------------------------
Press Release - 2024
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Contact us for any further information:
Guillaume Tetu, CEO and Co-founder - g.tetu@hautlence.com
Caroline Büchler, Marketing & Communication Manager - c.buechler@hautlence.com
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