Credits: Article and images by Martin Green @ Quill & Pad. See the original article here - https://quillandpad.com/2024/04/10/hyt-conical-tourbillon-black-eklipse-a-potent-hallucinating-horological-trip/
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A multi-layered trip
While most watch brands would leave it at that, for HYT, this is only the beginning, as they also include their ‘liquid hour’ indication. Here a glass capillary tube is connected to two bellows, with colored liquid indicating the hours.
Once six o’clock is reached on the scale, it takes about a minute to reset itself for the next round, making it in essence a retrograde. A triangle indicator runs around the central section of the tourbillon, pointing at the minutes.
The tourbillon and the two bellows operating the liquid hours display need quite some space. Leave it up to HYT to turn even that into an attraction. They use carbon and titanium to keep the weight down while making the Conical Tourbillon look cool. 48mm in width and 52.30mm in length sounds enormous, but as the design lacks lugs, it sits surprisingly well, even on even a modest size wrist like mine.
This is not a watch that slips under your sleeve. It can be done, but then you need to ask your tailor to cut it quite generously, as the height of the Conical Tourbillon is 25.15mm. Again, a number that sounds enormous, but is mainly due to the heavily domed sapphire crystal that protects the tourbillon, fluid hour indicator, and the incredible looking honeycomb structure on which the Arabic numerals are attached.
The Conical Tourbillon is also not a watch you want to (or can) hide. In fact, I would always prefer short sleeves when wearing it, not to show off, but to be able to freely indulge in this horological drug.
Like other types of drugs, this would mean that I can’t operate any heavy machinery or drive any vehicle, but that leaves all the more time and opportunity to focus on the Conical Tourbillon.
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Credits: Article and images by Martin Green @ Quill & Pad. See the original article here - https://quillandpad.com/2024/04/10/hyt-conical-tourbillon-black-eklipse-a-potent-hallucinating-horological-trip/