HYT Watches – CONICAL TOURBILLON Black Eklipse Carbon & Back DLC Titanium Edition - 2023 HYT Conical Tourbillon : 10 years of watchmaking revolution
celebrated with an innovative tourbillon.
The new HYT Conical Tourbillon
is a hypnotic, technical response to the promise made by the Neuchâtel
company ten years ago: to take high-end watchmaking into the future. A
symbiosis between science and the expertise of the finest watchmakers,
this mechanical fluidic watch is fitted with a conical tourbillon.
Created by master watchmaker Eric Coudray, who took inspiration from the
unique inclined balance tourbillon developed by Walter Prendel in 1928,
it provides a new solution to improve the stability and performance of
the tourbillon.
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The new
HYT Conical Tourbillon watch is both visually captivating and
technically fascinating. By combining its animations and the complexity
of an innovative, original conical tourbillon with the exclusive
mechanical fluidic technology from
HYT, this new timepiece expresses the
independent Swiss brand’s utterly unique vision of watchmaking.
For ten years, HYT has been continuously pushing the boundaries of
high-end contemporary watchmaking in both technical and aesthetic terms.
The HYT Conical Tourbillon is the result.
This contemporary timepiece is the most accomplished of those
designed by HYT. The HYT Conical Tourbillon stands for everything that
makes this independent Swiss watchmaking brand – founded in 2012 – so
unique and different. Ten years of history already! Yet, only ten years…
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The
HYT Conical Tourbillon is clearly the start of a new chapter.
“HYT is entering a new phase in its history, a phase of maturity,” says
Nicolas Sestito, the brand’s product director.
“For ten years, we have
been positioning ourselves as the ‘Mechanical Fluidic Engineering’,
opening up numerous fields of research in order to make our approach a
reality. From the very beginning of the adventure, we have brought
mechanics back to its most beautiful and noble form. Something which can
not only be seen and touched, it can also be felt with tools. It has
taken lots of discipline and excellence to perfect these complex
devices. We were then able to further develop our creative approach by
giving it a conceptual dimension at an intellectual level” to illustrate
that the fluidic indication made possible by the mechanical movement in
HYT watches goes far beyond the status of a simple instrument.
Ten years old, and a time for a bold approach.
At ten years old, your temperament is fully-formed and the essentials
of your character are set. It is an age of boldness and enthusiasm. At
ten years old, a child develops a powerful energy which feeds their
desire for growth and development. But it is also a phase which allows
for more structured experimentation.
Based on this philosophy, the new HYT Conical Tourbillon watch is a
return to the purity of the brand’s creative sources, a full expression
of its singular character.
It is both animated and sensual thanks to the dual movement effect
created by the retrograde fluid hour markers and the turning of the
conical tourbillon with its dynamic movements. The HYT Conical
Tourbillon is a new form of life, symbolised by the central mechanism at
its heart.
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On the wrist, the seductive lines and finish of the
HYT Conical
Tourbillon are beautifully showcased. The piece symbolises a
contemporary approach to watch design perfectly combined with the most
refined work of the Swiss watchmaking sector’s master craftsmen. A
careful eye will spot the sand-blasted and satinised finish of the
701
TC calibre, a hand-wound mechanical movement beating at a frequency of
21,600 vib/h (
3 Hz).
More discerning lovers of high-end watchmaking will be interested in
the specifications of the suspended tourbillon movement with a
spring-balance inclined at 30 degrees to horizontal, the escape wheel at
15 degrees, and a pallet at 23 degrees. This bold technical achievement
takes its inspiration directly from the works of German watchmaker
Walter Prendel and his inclined balance tourbillon.
When Eric Coudray amplifies Prendel’s tourbillon
The tourbillon is a mechanical device invented by Abraham-Louis
Breguet to improve the precision of mechanical watches by counteracting
disruptions to the isochronism of the balance caused by Earth’s gravity.
The principle is to place the movement’s regulator and escapement in a
cage rotating around its own axis in order to obtain a range of vertical
positions and ensure mutual compensation and thus release itself from
the pull of the Earth.
Watchmakers have been working on perfecting this system for more than
two centuries and there are numerous interpretations and variations on
the theme, from the original principle patented in 1801 by Abraham-Louis
Breguet to Omega’s central tourbillon in 1995.
However, one of the most important steps in the evolution of the
tourbillon is not one of the most well-known. This was the development
in 1928 of an oblique tourbillon by the German watchmaker Walter
Prendel.
In his workshops in Groitzsch, a part of Saxony which is as
well-known as Switzerland for the development of cutting-edge watches,
Walter Prendel aimed to prove the relevance of his research – based on
the theories of master watchmaker Alfred Helwig – into improving the
stability and regularity of the rate of his oblique tourbillon with a
spring-balance inclined at 30° to horizontal. This would be demonstrated
through the creation of a unique pocket watch equipped with his
ingenious device, completing one rotation in 6 minutes. A key milestone,
this historic watch has not been seen since it was sold at auction in
Geneva in 2021.
It was in the early 2020s that master watchmaker Eric Coudray, winner
of the Prix Gaïa and familiar with the complex works of Walter Prendel,
decided to continue this work to improve the tourbillon, using this
oblique tourbillon as his base. Eric Coudray devised his conical
tourbillon, which he called the “Cônillon”, a revision and
reinterpretation of Prendel’s oblique tourbillon.
Given its advances in contemporary fine watchmaking, it was only
logical that HYT would decide to include a tourbillon in the design of
the mechanical movement for its new watch. Of course, the independent
company turned to Eric Coudray, closely associated with the development
of the brand for many years, to help it achieve this.
In the same way that the ebb and flow of the fluids in HYT watches
are visible and evident, the capacities of the conical tourbillon can be
understood without a magnifying glass or other tools by any discerning
watch lover thanks to the unusual dynamic animation.
At the very heart of the dial, where the conical tourbillon completes
a clockwise revolution in 30 seconds, there are three spheres rotating
at different speeds which are easy to observe: the first completes four
turns a minute, the second five turns a minute, and the third six turns a
minute, clockwise.
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These rotations introduce a particularly bold form of chaos as,
paradoxically, they demonstrate the stability of the conical
tourbillon’s rate. Any observer would intuitively be tempted to think
that their contradictory forces would cause disruption, upsetting the
equilibrium, which seems to fly in the face of strict watchmaking logic.
On the contrary, they demonstrate the perfect stabilisation of the
rhythm of the tourbillon as, unlike other types of animation which are
positioned after the balance in the chain of movement, the animated
spheres in the HYT Conical Tourbillon are cut across by the energy
produced by the four cylinders in order to reach the regulating organ.
The unconnected, rapid movements of the animated spheres ensure the
conical tourbillon keeps perfect time, providing a tangible
demonstration of its technical efficiency.
Excellence and artistry on a micron scale
If we look closer, these spheres provide yet another indication of
the level of quality put into the production of the HYT Conical
Tourbillon. Each of these three spheres measuring 2.5 mm in diameter is
produced individually by a glass blower using traditional methods.
This ancient technique relies on skilled craftsmanship and extreme
precision, the latter taken to remarkable extremes here, requiring work
to the nearest micron. The walls of these spheres are extremely thin,
with very minute tolerances of just five hundredths to one tenth of a
millimetre. This makes each sphere completely unique and requires
bespoke calibration.
The difficulty does not end with the dimensions as the spheres are
then filled with fluorescent liquid so that their rotations can be seen.
In order to contain this glow-in-the-dark liquid, the first stage is to
guarantee the spheres are completely sealed at a molecular level.
Last but not least, the spheres are filled with luminescent fluid,
which is another complex, precision manual operation which can only be
carried out by the expert hand of a true artisan.
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This is why
HYT has two dedicated qualified watchmakers working
solely on producing this exceptional movement which marries technical
watchmaking skills with craftsmanship. There are
533 components in the
assembly. The tourbillon cage alone has
159 components. If you add the
39 dial components and the 66 case components, the whole of the
HYT
Conical Tourbillon is made up of
750 components, all of which are
assembled and checked by hand.
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The entire mechanism, made up of
HYT’s proprietary fluid module, here
with a green liquid, and the conical tourbillon in its modernist cage,
sits beneath a dome of sapphire crystal which encloses a
48 mm case made
of hydrocarbon and titanium.
Telling the time using liquids:
a sophisticated contemporary response to an age-old principle.
HYT was born in 2012 from a dream of using liquid to display the time
on a mechanical watch. The independent Swiss watchmaker has developed a
very personal approach to the art of watchmaking, guided by the
ambition to return to the very sources of timekeeping as they were first
established many thousands of years ago. In order to do this, HYT has
developed cutting-edge technology which allows it to transfer the energy
developed by the watch movement to animate the fluid mechanics.
Specifically, it involves using a very fine glass capillary tube
connected to two bellows with walls one quarter the thickness of a human
hair but 10,000 times more watertight than even a traditional diver’s
watch.
The mechanical movement uses pressure to move two immiscible liquids
contained in two flexible reservoirs known as bellows. One of the
liquids is transparent, the other is coloured. Where the two liquids
meet is the point of reference in order to tell the time. This is a
retrograde reading as the compression energy is transferred to the first
of the two reservoirs after six hours. The liquid then reverses its
course in about a minute before starting a new 12-hour compression
cycle.
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To enable a link between the liquid system and the watch calibre, the
movement has an oversized lever known as the feeler. It establishes a
connection between the functioning of the cam and that of the bellows,
whose role is to control the movement of the two liquids. This cam
allows perfect synchronisation between the fluidic time and the
mechanical time. By improving the energy regulation of the mechanical
calibre, the tourbillon increases the precision of this coordination. In
order to keep the liquids separated while controlling their movement
using the bellows, the engineers harnessed a physical phenomenon which
uses the force of repulsion of the molecules of each fluid and the walls
of the capillary tube.
The liquid module needs to be perfectly hermetically sealed and able
to compensate for the expansion of the liquids due to temperature
fluctuations. This is a particularly challenging constraint for an item
worn on the wrist, which is exposed to changing body temperature,
changing external temperatures and other hazards of everyday life, both
indoors and outdoors. The key element is the thermal compensator inside
one of the two bellows.
For more than ten years, HYT has been constantly improving both its
system and its movements. 2023 sees an important step forward. HYT is
entering a new phase in its development, reaching a certain level of
maturity. Its limited-edition timepieces are sophisticated, complex and
highly unusual, while still exemplifying a form of hedonism. The brand’s
course is set, and exclusivity is the watchword.
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TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
Collections: CONICAL TOURBILLON
Model: CONICAL TOURBILLON Black Eklipse Edition
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Reference:
H02759-A Limited Edition of 8 piecesCase Material: Carbon & black DLC titanium case
Width: 48.00 mm
Length: 52.30 mm
Thickness: 25.15 m
Crown in black DLC titanium
Glass: Domed sapphire crystal (box) with anti-reflective coating
Black side grids with green background
Water-resistant to
50 metres
Dial Black coated brass (39 pcs)
3D black coated appliques, green luminous numbers (Lumicast®)
Black grid with black background
Green liquid inside borosilicate capillary tube
Black mat minutes hands, white SLN
Movement Ref.: 701-TC (
533 pièces)
Type: Mechanical
Frequency: 21,600 vib/h (
3 Hz)
Number of jewels: 61 Winding: with winder tool
Power reserve: 40h Finishing: Finely sandblasted and satin
Coating: Black coating
Functions/Indications Retrograde fluidic hours
Central minutes hand
Tourbillon
Chaotic animation
Strap and buckle Black rubber strap
Black Microfibre embossed strap decor
Green stitches
Pin-buckle - Black coated titanium
Satin & sandblasted finishies
🔰 Edition of ✅only 18 pieces
🔴Price: MSRP: 335'000 CHF (excl. taxes)
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