The boundaries of contemporary watchmaking are stretched again by Swiss luxury watch manufacturer HYT’s new collection – which introduces three new variations of the S1 Titanium: DLC Blue, DLC Green, and Beadblasted Titanium Red, alongside the T1 Titanium Guilloché – that embodies the brand’s visionary spirit, brings time to life through fluidic innovation and is set to be revealed at Watches and Wonders Geneva 2025.
The four new releases reaffirm HYT’s relentless pursuit of innovation. By redefining the perception of time through a fusion of mechanical mastery and fluidic motion, the brand continues to stand at the crossroads of tradition and revolution.
The Three Radical S1 Titanium Sports Watches in the Permanent Collection
The S1 Titanium DLC Blue, S1 Titanium DLC Green and S1 Beadblasted Titanium Red are here to stay, confidently flaunting their powerful and unique character.
A fascinating, one-of-a-kind movement powers the watches, each displaying strong individual characters. But the three watches also have three things in common. Every S1 is a lightweight, reliable, and comfortable timing companion.
The bold S1 Titanium DLC Blue has a black DLC titanium case, retrograde blue fluidic hours inside a delicate borosilicate capillary tube above a white background, and white Super-LumiNova on the large minute hand and the small hands indicating the seconds and the power reserve.
There’s also luminous material on the indications and Arabic numerals on the black-coated, sand-blasted flange. The flange’s grained structure emphasises the sturdy and sporty nature of the watch while also showcasing HYT’s attention to detail. The colour combination is clear and powerful, oozes athletic performance, and creates an extremely legible timepiece.
The watch comes with a Pure Black rubber strap with a black DLC titanium buckle or a Pure Black Velcro strap with black DLC titanium hardware. Changing straps is done in seconds because of an intuitive and robust quick-change system.
The handsome S1 Titanium DLC Greenalso comes in black DLC titanium but trades clear blue for a vivid and natural shade of green. The dark green fluid marking the hours subtly contrasts with the black and grey setting of the watch’s case, movement, and indications.
The vigorous S1 Titanium DLC Green rises to the challenge of exploring the unknown with an intriguing instrumental look. When darkness sets in, or the weather changes and thunderclouds chase away the light, the green fluid, in combination with glowing Super-LumiNova on different markings and the large, open-worked central minutes hand, guarantees optimal readability.
Like the blue version of the S1, the S1 Titanium DLC Green comes with a Pure Black rubber and Velcro strap with case colour-matching hardware.
The fascinating S1 Beadblasted Titanium Redproudly showcases the same angular yet ergonomic and fluid lines but with a completely different look. The use of silver and black-coated bead-blasted titanium creates a futuristic appearance. The light and soft hues and the subtle structure of the lightweight and antiallergic titanium case seem to soften and lighten its angular lines.
The watch can be worn on a rubber and a fabric strap. The supple contrasting Pure Black rubber strap matches the same-coloured details on the case and closes with a sand-blasted and brushed titanium buckle. The sporty Light Grey Velcro strap is outfitted with a simple and efficient loop buckle showing case-matching finishes.
The monochromatic integration with the case, especially with the colour-coordinated grey strap, provides the S1 Beadblasted Titanium Red an almost weightless appearance that wouldn’t look out of place on the wrist of an astronaut navigating the galaxy. The prominent presence of a one-of-a-kind power source only underlines the timepiece’s not-of-this-(watch)-world properties.
Even though the movement looks like a futuristic piece of micromachinery, the hydromechanical 501-CM power plant is a real-life piece of innovative watchmaking genius. The different shades of grey form an ideal background for the bright retrograde red fluidic hours inside the borosilicate capillary tube.
The flange has a grained, bead-blasted structure, creating a uniform, monochromatic look. Even the calibre 501-CM inside the 50-metre water-resistant case shows grained sand-blasted components next to matte-brushed movement parts to create a coherent composition.
“It is with great pleasure that we present the long-awaited S1 Series in the permanent collection,” said HYT CEO Vahe Vartzbed.
“The S1 Series collection brings back the identifying signs of the first collections with an open-worked dial in which the mechanical movement and the fluidic module take centre stage. This time, the hydromechanical movement is encapsulated in the most ergonomic and comfortable case in the brand’s history.
“The S1 Titanium DLC Green takes up our iconic fluid colour from the beginning in homage to the first pieces launched in 2012, while the S1 Beadblasted Titanium Red presents a completely new interpretation at HYT regarding finishing both on the outside and inside of the case. We are excited to return to HYT’s roots with the S1 Series collection and look forward to seeing it hit the markets.”
The S1 sports watch collection’s visual highlight is the display’s outrageously exuberant high-tech mechanical movement. The watch’s powerful presence is, in a way, the result of a form-follows-function affair. When creating a sports watch, lightness, reliability, and comfort are crucial criteria that must be met. Every S1 ticks those three boxes.
The disruptive hydromechanical calibre 501-CM
To ensure the S1’s lightness, HYT deploys titanium and leaves out a dial. The lack of a dial saves weight and reveals the sports watch’s impressive and unique hydromechanical calibre 501-CM, featuring two small bellows on the lower half of the open-worked dial.
The hand-winding movement’s unique looks are disruptive even 13 years after its first appearance – the first hydromechanical HYT creation burst onto the watch scene in 2012. The constant evolution of movement technology has led to a highly reliable and stable calibre with impressive characteristics such as an impressive and practical 72 hours of power reserve.
The Hypnotic HYT T1 Titanium Guilloché
Integrating ancient and avantgarde artisanal techniques, the limited edition of just eight timepieces combines antique concepts and craftsmanship with one-of-a-kind contemporary watchmaking.
The mesmerising watch tells a captivating story of historical watchmaking eclecticism. Its unique hydromechanical movement is a marvel of groundbreaking technology, but the inspiration dates back centuries.
Inspiration for HYT’s fluid telling of time came from ancient Egypt, where the oldest water clock was found dating back to circa 1417–1379 BC, where it was used during the reign of the pharaoh Amenhotep III.
HYT took the original principle and turned it into technology for the wrist, and with the launch of the eight-piece limited edition HYT T1 Titanium Guilloché, it also introduces another traditional concept to a distinctly contemporary watch: artisanal guilloché, which appeared in watchmaking for the first time many centuries ago.
The French term ‘guilloché’, from the late 18th century, is linked to an engineer named Guillot working in France who is said to have invented and constructed a tool or turning machine to create guilloché patterns.
A technique with the name of its inventor sounds plausible, and it is true that in the 1770s, guilloché was retrospectively used to describe repetitive architectural patterns of intersecting or overlapping spirals or other shapes made in ancient Near Eastern, classical Greek, and Roman architecture and Early Medieval interlace decoration in Anglo-Saxon art.
The HYT T1 Titanium Guilloché is Connecting Times
Creating a guilloche watch dial takes time, tools, skills, and talent – that was the case in the past and is still the case today. An artisanal guillocheur engraves fine and intricate patterns on metal using an anachronistic rose engine, straight-line engine, or brocading machine.
Creating a guilloché dial starts with the guillocheur positioning the machine to place the dial in the right direction. Then, pressure is applied to the cutter, and by varying that, different effects appear. The result is a meticulously structured dial that reflects the light in an unrivaled, lively, and dynamic way.
Guilloché was once a thriving art form taught in dedicated watchmaking schools. For example, between 1896 and 1932, the School of Applied Industrial Arts in the Swiss watchmaking town of La Chaux-de-Fonds conducted classes on guilloché with up to ten students. Those days are long gone, and now only a few specialists, who mastered the art of handmade guilloche, remain.
HYT’s limited edition of the contemporary T1 confidently shows a blue-coated brass dial decorated with a handmade guilloché pattern.
Love for Artisanal Crafts
“The introduction of the T1 Series in 2024 was an important step for HYT to offer improved comfort and wearability of our timepieces while surprising with the first closed dial that allowed us to express ourselves on a more traditional approach,” the HYT CEO said.
“The T1 Series collection is like a platform on which we can introduce fascinating artisanal crafts we have a deep love for. The first example is the T1 Titanium Guilloché. Limited to just eight pieces worldwide, the guilloché is entirely hand-made. We are extremely proud to present a timepiece combining one of the purest expressions of traditional watchmaking and our unique fluidic time indication.”
The Third-Generation T1 Explores new Design Territories
The T1 Titanium Guilloché is a third-generation T1 timepiece. The four-watch T1 collection debuted in the Spring of 2024 and surprised the watch world with its modern looks, ergonomic design, and introverted closed dial.
The T1 series marked HYT’s completely new design concept. Later that year, the T1 Millésime debuted. These watches, offering vintage-inspired, colourful dials, just like a millésime wine, were only made within a set period, from September 2024 to April 2025.
The ‘T’ in the name T1 Titanium Guilloché stands for tradition, so it makes sense that it continues to explore the vintage theme. This time, it does so even more adventurously and boldly than before.
The octagonal shape of the natural-coloured and black-coated titanium case with a soft satin finish forms the contrasting foundation for a historically eclectic timepiece. The diameter of the faceted case measures 45.3mm and it has a thickness of 17.2mm. This results in a well-proportioned case that wears very well.
Finding the source of the fluidic hours
Who would guess that a guilloche dial that oozes tradition would be such a wonderfully suited décor for a fluidic time display? HYT envisioned it and made it happen.
Time is shown through retrograde hours and a generously sized central minute hand on the large and vivid blue dial. At 6 o’clock, a high-tech borosilicate glass capillary tube appears seemingly out of nowhere. Inside it, a black fluid moves past the hour markings on the flange. You must flip the watch to find out where the tube comes from.
When looking at the T1 Titanium Guilloché’s transparent case back, you can try to figure out how the fluid indication of the hours works. The original idea to use fluid to show time sprouted from the brain of Swiss serial inventor Lucien Vouillamoz – a man with 118 applications and 24 patents to his name – in the late 1990s. The idea took more than a decade to materialise.
No surprise when you know that the movement, which debuted in HYT’s first-ever watch in 2012, is a never-seen-before combination of traditional mechanical principles and an alien, even hostile liquid element. The calibre 501-CM inside the T1 Titanium Guilloché profits from twelve years of steady evolution. The 352-part, manual winding, 4Hz movement, with 72 hours of power reserve, is a unique and reliable micromachine.