Limited Edition of 28 Pieces
Using a system based on gravitational force, the HL Newton 01 indicates the time only when required. The watch enters mechanical standby mode whenever the passing minutes are of no interest.
Equipped with a new self-winding manufacture calibre, this piece uses the jumping hour principle, with the caveat that the usual criteria have been entirely revisited by the Neuchâtel brand. Instead of the hour jumping in a static window, Hautlence opted for a moving window that approaches the hour numeral. It all happens under the effect of gravity, using a mobile window supported on three bearings with an off-center weight.
On a mechanical level, a central wheel skeletonised in the form of the famous Moebius symbol, drives the blued minute hand, which is tipped with a white arrow. It also actuates the silvered opaline disc featuring the skeletonised hours. While the hours and minutes follow their trajectory, a mobile central flange with a blue DLC coating is driven by a snail, which performs a full revolution every 60 minutes. This weighted flange, which bears the brand's logo, features the minute track numerals and a window that displays the time, when desired by the wearer. The flange then moves to the correct location, bringing the window to the hour and the minute track opposite the hand. The movement is gentle, thanks to a brake that prevents shocks. When the wrist is in a random position, the time is not visible and the minute track is out of phase with the minute hand's travel.
Technical Specifications:
The case, in titanium, measures 39mm x 46mm x 12mm. It has a bevelled AR-coated sapphire crystal, an AR-coated sapphire display back, and it is water resistant to 30 meters.
Movement is the Swiss automatic Hautlence in-house caliber HTL 201-1 with 27 jewels, 21,600 vph and a power reserve of 3 days. Jumping hours using a gravitational on-demand time display, with the minutes on a 330° sector. Front face finish: sand-blasted module, components decorated and finished by hand. Reverse finish: double Cotes de Genève, components decorated and finished by hand.
Base dial: opaline with silvered inserts engraved with honeycomb pattern; silvered opaline hour disc with skeletonised numerals. Mobile window with blue DLC, white transfer minute numerals.
It comes on a blue Louisiana alligator leather strap that is domed, rubber-lined, with full square scales, and a rolled-edge. Fitted with a titanium folding clasp.
Hautlence timepieces are created and produced in Switzerland, in Neuchâtel and the Jura mountains, in the very highest tradition of Swiss watchmaking, and are signed with the label "Horlogerie Suisse". The components are produced externally using a network of thirty-five partners and subcontractors, all based in the Neuchâtel/Jura region.
MSRP is 24,900 Swiss Francs.
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