Baselworld 2013 is still a month away, but we’re already getting excited for the luxury timepieces set to be revealed at the iconic watch show. From April 25 to May 2, the industry’s leading manufactures will gather in Basel, a beautiful Swiss town located on the German border, to unveil their new creations. Today, we’ve […]

  Vincent Perriard is the CEO and creator of HYT Watches. He is very well known and respected in the watch world and is no doubt inspired and influenced by his surroundings everyday. Here is what he keeps on his desk: One of my three Macs I cannot do without these—with the main reason being […]

The H1 Titanium by HYT is Carmelo Anthony's pick for Haute Time Watch of the Day. HYT merges fine watch making, engineering and fluid mechanics to create a watch that uses a fluorescent liquid to tell time in this amazing timepiece.

The H1 Titanium by HYT is Carmelo Anthony’s pick for Haute Time Watch of the Day. HYT merges fine watch making, engineering and fluid mechanics to create a watch that uses a fluorescent liquid to tell time in this amazing timepiece. The HYT H1 Titanium model has brushed and satin finished surfaces and a case […]

HYT, the hydro mechanical horologists from Switzerland who are using techniques bordering on nanotechnology in the world of luxury watchmaking, have picked up yet another prestigious award for their innovative, forward thinking timepiece craftsmanship which is in a completely different level from that of traditional chronograph manufacture. The watches crafted by HYT work on the […]

CRYSTAL MAGIC: CARTIER PRESENTS THE ASTROTOURBILLON CARBON CRYSTAL In the male-dominated, testosterone-fueled world of watches and watchmaking, it’s easy to think that the imagination and drive to innovate must be an exclusively male domain. But one of the most creative and fertile minds in the watchmaking world belongs to Carole Forestier, who currently plies her […]

Jack Forster reviews the hydromechanical HYT H1.

Westime President Greg Simonian recaps his favorite timepieces from Basel 2012 in the May/June issue of Haute Living Los Angeles. “I take the time to see hundreds of new watches at the Basel show—from my favorite companies that have been perfecting their craft for centuries, to passionate individual watchmakers who are taking timepieces in exciting […]

One of the brightest trends to emerge in the watch industry these days is the growing tendency of timepieces to glow in the dark. Tourbillons are fun to watch and repeaters are divine musical machines, but if you really want a useful function in a watch, you should get one that glows in the dark […]

An annual migration occurs every spring. Watchmakers descend from their mountaintop workshops while watch aficionados flock from every corner of the world to convene in the Swiss city of Basel. The gathering is nothing less than the biggest watch fair on earth, and the best place to find innovative new watches that collectors will covet […]

Haute Time: Tell us some of the most exciting developments at HYT today? Vincent Perriard: Well, the entire project is highly exciting because it is a world premiere ! Mixing liquids and mechanics has never been done before se we have to work hard to make it work ! 3 years of work, lots of people […]

Haute Living Publisher Seth Semilof meets with the creator of HYT Watches, Vincent Perriard at Basel World

My next meeting on Sunday was with one of the biggest rock stars of Basel World, Vincent Perriard, the creator of the HYT Watch. His first launch is the H1 Hydro Mechanical Watch. On the website, they describe the piece as an encounter between Fine Watchmaking and fluid mechanics. Basically, the watch performs and works on […]