Vincent Perriard, who co-founded HYT three years ago, presents the new collection: "To celebrate this anniversary, we wanted to please our fans and play around a bit with what we have created, starting with our first baby - the H1. It's an opportunity to offer enthusiasts an exclusive version of this iconic model, incorporating unique conditions. Yellow, blue and red are the three colours featured in the Colorblock collection. The colours are in tune with the spirit of HYT: imposing, fresh, explosive and uncompromising. The colours feature on the dial, the flange and the strap."
The H1 Colorblock watches remain faithful to the first H1 which was launched in 2012. However, they features a few details borrowed from HYT's contemporary models, such as the black liquid created for the H1 Full Gold, or the minute hand developed for the H1 Ghost. The capillary on the H1 Colorblock is partially coated in SuperLumiNova (SLN), which glows green in low light to illuminate it from below, allowing the time to be read "by deduction": the opaque black liquid blocks light, while the clear liquid allows it through.
The yellow version is the most distinctive, as this is HYT's trademark colour. It offers an arresting contrast with the anthracite case in Gun Metal PVD. The blue version is the most subtle, featuring a glacial aura of a surprising depth, while the red version is the most striking. It is the only version to incorporate only three shades: red, black (liquid) and grey (movement), with each of the other versions bearing traces of red on the power reserve and the second wheel.
The watches are powered by mechanical hand-wound, exclusive HYT calibre. Beating at 28,800 vph, it ensure a 65-hour autonomy to the watch and govers the retrograde black fluidic hours, minutes, and seconds functions. The bridges are hand-chamfered and adorned with côtes de Genève and the bellows are rhodiumed.
Each piece features a strap in a brand new, ultra-resistant, water resistant and anti-allergen fibres, sustainably produced, with black topstitching and titanium gun metal PVD pin buckle.
The H1 Colorblock will be available from early October 2016, in three limited editions of 10 pieces. "With this collection, we wanted to open up the unique world of HYT to a new generation whose primary value is creation, not imitation or bland reinterpretation of the pastW, concludes Gregory Dourde, CEO of HYT. "HYT offers owners a breathtaking range of emotions via a new reading of time, as it both passes and - crucially - opens up before us. This is all made possible thanks to a number of patented inventions based on cutting-edge aerospace and medical technology."
