HYSEK – IO Double Orbitale Automatic Manufacture Rose Gold & Titanium - Collection 2019
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« Hysek sends time into orbit – twice »
« Hysek sends time into orbit – twice »
The Hysek IO Double Orbitale marks a resurgence of the firm’s creative fibre at its best.
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A new, fully manufacture-made movement has allowed Hysek to create a display that’s literally revolutionary, with both minutes and seconds travelling in orbit. Simply breath-taking.
In brief
The Double Orbitale is the latest addition to Hysek’s IO collection, based on a fully manufacture-made movement: the HW63 caliber.
The hours are displayed in a window at 12 o’clock, while the minutes and seconds appear on an orbital display, resulting in the watch’s name – “Double Orbitale”.
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The seconds are embedded within the minutes module itself. They are marked out by a smaller, more discreet hand, positioned beneath the minutes hand and pointing to another semi-circular display.
The piece comes in four configurations, combining a case in titanium or rose gold with either of two dial variations.
In detail
Reinventing tradition; disruptive creativity; unashamedly contemporary aesthetics – never have so many superlatives been in order in the field of mechanical watchmaking. The fact is that there are few ‘creations’ really deserving of the term; such watches must ‘create’ a genuinely new horological artefact: a complication, a display, a material, or some other, similar ‘creation’.
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Hysek has pulled off such a feat more than once, notably with the Colossal, unveiled last year: the first perpetual calendar in the world to use only rollers. This year, the brand’s done it again with the IO Double Orbitale.
One creation, two revolutions
Hysek is one of the last remaining fully-independent manufactures, and as such enjoys complete stylistic and technical freedom – as its new IO Double Orbitale amply demonstrates. It is indeed an authentic watchmaking ‘creation’, featuring an unprecedented dual orbital display for both minutes and seconds.
For this new timepiece, powered by the HW63 manufacture caliber, the minutes display is not powered from the centre: instead, it rotates around the inner edge of the bezel in a module mounted on an external arc, linked to a gear arrangement concealed beneath the bezel. This puts the module in orbit around the outside of the dial, guided by the gear system.
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Within the module itself, a broad openwork hand marks out the minutes by pointing towards two central arcs featuring graduations from 05 to 25 and from 35 to 55. True Hysek connoisseurs will spot that the arcs are fixed to the dial at the 1, 5, 7, and 11 positions on the hour track – a nod to one of the firm’s signature touches.
Embedded seconds
The seconds module is embedded within the minutes module, which thus form a single unit. They rotate around the dial together: hence the “Double Orbitale” name of this IO.
The seconds are shown by a hand located beneath the minutes hand. This sweeps over another semi-circular section featuring engraved markers. From a technical point of view, the seconds satellite is geared to the revolutions of the minutes satellite, multiplying them to indicate the seconds.
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The piece also features 24 jumping hours at twelve o’clock – another Hysek speciality. The window displaying them opens onto a surface coated with Super-LumiNova, making it easy to read the skeletonised hours at any time of day or night.
One piece, four finishes
From an aesthetic point of view, the design of the minutes and seconds module recalls the bridge used on Hysek’s Kilada line. Previously, this contemporary design also inspired the first tourbillon bridges, when Hysek originally began to develop this kind of complication. It has now become another of the firm’s hallmarks.
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The dial will come in two versions that reveal the movement: one openwork, another made from sapphire crystal, bearing a laser engraving of a motif already used by the firm on its IO Manufacture – a stylised representation of a graphite molecule.
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The timepiece will be available in the second quarter of 2019, on offer with a 43-millimetre titanium or rose gold case, and fitted with the integrated HW63 manufacture caliber – boasting a 56-hour power reserve and a total of 265 components.
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TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
Model: IO Double Orbitale 43mm Automatic Manufacture
Ref. IO4305R02 - 18K Rose Gold 43mm
Ref. IO4305T02- Titanium 43mm
MOVEMENT
Hysek HW63 calibre
Type Self-winding mechanical
Automatic Mechanical
Micro-rotor on the back side
Circular brushed Decoration
265 components
65 jewel
Power Reserve 50 hours
Frequency 28,800 vph
Jumping Hours at 12 o’clock
Orbitale Minutes & Seconds, Date
CASE
Round shape
18K rose gold or Titanium
Ø 43 mm x W10 mm
Sapphire crystal with anti-reflection
Water resistance 30 metres
DIAL
Sapphire or Skeletonized dial
Date window at 12’ o clock
- Jumping Hours at 12 o’clock
- Orbitale Minutes & Seconds
Hysek fold-over buckle
Interchangeable Bracelet
Price - Price on Request
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Press Release - 2019
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MANUFACTURE HYSEK SA
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CH-1167 Lussy-sur-Morges
Phone +41 21 804 90 90
Fax +41 21 803 19 29
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