On Tuesday 24, November 2021, I woke up to pleasant news I received in the email. HYT Watches was resurrected through a takeover by Kairos Technology Switzerland, and Davide Cerrato was appointed as the Chief Executive Officer for the new endeavour. Cerrato was the Head of Marketing, Design and Product Development at Tudor from 2007 to 2015. He spent the next five years as the Managing Director of Montblanc’s Watch Division. So if you like the kind of improvements achieved at both brands during those years, you will be as excited as we are to see what the future may hold for HYT Watches – a young brand which started out only in 2012 with the fluidic time indication as the raison d’etre.
All the editors here and industry professionals in general were impressed, and not a little incredulous, that a mad watchmaker was mixing mechanical watchmaking with hydrological elements. HYT Watches used to be known to many of us as the hydro mechanical horologists. In any case, the products cannot be more different from those Cerrato has developed previously. We interviewed him as soon as he was settled in this new position.
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EASY COMPANY
Hamilton launches the new Khaki Field Quartz collection that takes its inspiration from the G.S.watches of the 1960s.
SPIRITED AWAY
The year of the dragon is not yet over and Franck Muller's new watch will remind you once again why this year is a great Chinese zodiac year for watches.
LUNAR TIES
Blancpain resumes its deep-seated romance with the moon through the Bathyscaphe Quantième Complet Phases de Lune in black ceramic.
USEFUL BREAKTHROUGH
With the Elux LAB-ID PAM01800, Panerai has delivered the smartest and brightest dive watch ever made.
SHIELD KING
Seiko reveals a new take on a King Seiko classic, the KS1969, thus bringing back an intriguing shape to the collection.
FRENCH EXPRESS
Louis Vuitton extends their new philosophy of watchmaking unveiling the dressier Escale collection.
PUSHING BOUNDARIES
Patek Philippe brings their patented system to synchronise the date display on a world time watch to their regular collection.
APROPOS COMPLICATIONS
A watch with complications appeals to different sorts of collectors, and is quite different to a complex watch. The editors of Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand discuss the virtues of all sorts of complications and considering when more is really better…
KEEPING IT REAL
Technology proves to be a solid tool for luxury watch brands in their fight against mounting cases of fake timepieces and watch thefts.
GLOWUP
A brightly lumed dial in pitch-black darkness is equal parts joy and fascination, have you ever wondered where your Super-LumiNova comes from?