BEHIND HYT WATCHES

THE HYDRO MECHANICAL HOROLOGISTS

When unique personalities harness groundbreaking technologies, the impossible becomes possible, and utopia becomes reality.

Gravity is conquered, liquid mastered, and design revered. Discover the forces and faces behind the world's first Hydro-Mechanical piece of Fine Watchmaking..

Meet the ultimate alchemists, the Fab 6, who have suceeded in the incredible challenge of telling the time with water for the first time since the pharaohs.

A jet-set of Hydro-Mechanical watchmakers, pioneering a modern legend and making and breaking the rules as the helm of the HYT innovation incubator.

 

Genesis

In 7 acts

01.In 2002, Lucien Vouillamoz is raving to his friends about the idea of designing a water watch. The problem lies in how to replace the gravitational energy used in clepsydras within a wearable, water-resistant wristwatch. The utopic idea can’t go further without a technical solution.02.Several years after, the concept is still nagging Lucien Vouillamoz, who decides to reconsider it from a different angle. As former nuclear engineer with a degree in thermodynamics his research led to a completely new idea – involving the use of two flexible reservoirs attached to each end of the same capillary. The questions of energy and congestion are solved in one go.03.It’s time to protect the simple but powerful idea. Lucien Vouillamoz evaluates the potential and calls his friend Patrick Berdoz, a highly experienced serial entrepreneur, who then contacts Emmanuel Savioz, a specialist in the domain, raising the funds required to finance the first prototype.04.Following a year of R&D, a first prototype is conceived. The time is accurately indicated, the concept is demonstrated and the patents registered. 05.In 2010, a key meeting takes place composed of an explosive encounter ! Vincent Perriard, one of the well-known and most dynamic personalities of the Nouvelle Horologerie scene, was dreaming of expanding his own fluidic endeavors and Lucien Vouillamoz the person who can provide the key to this dream : the technology! The project can take off.06.The HYT industrial set up takes shape, Jean-François Mojon and his team at Chronode develop the movement for the future H1. Meanwhile, CEO and HYT partner Vincent Perriard entrusts the design of the future H1 to the Etude de Style design lab. 07.The orchestra is in place. Chronode designs and manufactures the movements, while HYT's sister company Preciflex, led by Lucien Vouillamoz, supplies the liquid components. The alchemy between these two unlikely worlds gave birth to the H1.

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about the innovation

EXTREME ALCHEMISTS

HYT's Hydro-Mechanical Watchmakers have turned utopia into reality - mixing mechanics and liquid within a wristwatch. While tryly addicted to non-conformism, they have drawn upon the strictest codes in Fine Watchmaking - and felt free to shatter them!

THE LEITMOTIF

Fluid mechanics, or the ultimate in hybrid technology. The formula? Avant-garde watchmaking developments, engineering pushed to its heights, high-tech materials, and a design that generates genuine emotions.

Can you imagine tracing time's inexorable progress with liquid? Could you picture liquid under the dial of a watch? What seemed totally unthinkable, has new become reality. With hydromechanics, the Dydromechanical Horologists are writing a new chapter in the sage of exceptional watchpieces. We now find two sworn enemies enclosed together in the same display case, with fluid being controlled by a watch movement.

THE HYDROMECHANICAL HOROLOGISTS ARE WRITING A NEW CHAPTER IN SAGA OF EXCEPTIONAL WATCHPIECES.

Vincent Perriard

This purpose-build mechanical movement drives the revolutionary hydraulic pistongs, proving that, although we've overthrown centuries of tradition, we still fervently uphold the ideals of fine watchmaking. There's no doubting this new technology's impact, set to fuel the HYT innovation incubator in making and breaking the next rules. Discover and extraordinary adventure, telling how a few enthusiasts finally achieved a world first.