Colorful Craniums: HYT Skull 48.8 Launches in Green, Red, and Blue
The “hydro-mechanical horologists” at HYT are expanding their collection of skull-themed timepieces with three new titanium-cased models, each with a new galvanized, opaline-varnished skull dial in green, red, or blue, to match the hue of each watch’s fluidic hours display.
HYT Skull 48.8 in green (Ref. S48-TT-35-GF-RA), limited to 50 pieces
Housed in 48.8-mm cases made of titanium, with satin and sandblasted finishes, the watches, like their predecessors, use a colored fluid ? flowing through a thin capillary and controlled by the expansion and contraction of two vertical bellows in the movement ? to keep track of the hours with the aid of a numbered scale around the dial. (For a full explanation on how HYT watches keep time, read our article on the original HYT watch, the H1.) In the HYT Skull, this fluid-filled tube conforms to the outline of a skull, i.e., bending at four angles, rather curving in the semicircular arc found on earlier HYT watches, like the H1 and H2. Also making the Skull models distinct from these predecessors is the absence of a separate hand to indicate the minutes. Also unlike those other two models, which offer the wearer a large glimpse of the eye-catching movement from the dial side, the HYT Skull mostly hides it, focusing instead on the dominant skull icon on the front ? here in eye-catching varnished color, thus differentiating them from HYT’s previous Skulls, which had more metallic versions of the skull? and showing ...
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