Time Jumpers: Five Luxury Watches with Jumping Hours
When can a watch be both digital and mechanical" When it indicates its hour by numerals on an instantaneously jumping disk rather than a traditional hand. Here are five watches that include this jumping hour display in their timekeeping repertoire.
Bulgari GĂ©rald Genta 50th Anniversary Arena Bi-Retro Watch
Legendary watch designer GĂ©rald Genta gave the world such icons as the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak and Patek Philippe Nautilus before establishing his own eponymous brand in 1969. Bulgari, eventual owner of the Genta brand, paid tribute to its founder, who died in 2011, with a special edition in a 41-mm platinum case. The 50th Anniversary edition has a blue lacquered dial with a jumping hour numeral in a round window at 12 o?clock, and the minutes and date on two retrograde hands, a distinctive timekeeping configuration that was a hallmark of pre-Bulgari GĂ©rald Genta watches. The watch, which sports the vintage GĂ©rald Genta brand logo on the dial, contains the self-winding BVL caliber. Price: $59,000.
Bulgari GĂ©rald Genta 50th Anniversary Bi-Retro Arena
Chronoswiss Sirius Flying Regulator Jumping Hour
Lucerne-based Chronoswiss offers a variety of novel takes on the classic regulator dial, based on the designs of vintage observatory clocks and traditionally displaying hours and seconds on subdials and minutes on a large central hand. In the Sirius Flying Regulator Jumping Hour model, the hours subdial is replaced by a digital indicator, with hour num...
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