Haute Time Meets with HYT’s Vincent Perriard and Xavier Casals

HYT’s CEO Vincent Perriard and Haute Time Managing Editor Seth Semilof.

On Thursday, I had lunch with Vincent Perriard from HYT and was joined with his Artistic Creator Xavier Casals. We met up at the Kempinski Hotel, as Vincent was excited to show the actual watch, since the last time we saw him was at Basel World, and he only had prototypes.

Now he has the real pieces, as we were looking at #003. His partner has another watch, which was more silver, and we loved both of them. The technology is working, the watch looks beautiful, and now they are shipping them worldwide. Vincent was more concerned with getting the first pieces 100 percent efficient, so he can grow the brand running full steam ahead.

With Basel World coming up in April, Vincent showed me a couple of cool things he is working on. First, he is working on the evolution of the HYT H1 brand. What does that mean? It means he has new colors, from the standard green color. Plus, he is working on a state of the art Watch, that reminds me of the Audemars Piguet Concept Tourbillon, that he is calling HY2. He is very excited about his creations, and reviewing live, they worked well, and the watches should be a huge success.

Seth Semilof

Co-Founder & COO · Haute Time

Seth Semilof co-founded Haute Living and, with business partner Kamal Hotchandani, launched Haute Time, the brands' luxury timepiece site, to educate buyers about the best watches in the world and to showcase the passion of collectors and the CEOs who lead the great maisons. His love of watches began early: a TAG Heuer at 13, an Omega at 16, and his first Rolex at 20. Through Haute Time he has been honored to visit the greatest watch manufactures in the world and meet the master watchmakers behind them. He has also personally featured private collections exclusive to Haute Time, taking readers inside the watch boxes of Kevin Hart, Carmelo Anthony, Tony Robbins and Swizz Beatz.