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BaselWorld 2010: Hautlence
One of the relatively unsung new brands that deserves much more
attention, IMHO, is Hautlence.
They don't really communicate too much
on their depth of production, which they have and own development
skills, which they also have. This year we can finally see the result
of more than two years of development: the HL 2.0.
The HL 2.0 is
hard to describe, yes it is a tourbillon, but a tourbillon which changes
position once an hour when the hour jumps.
The hours are shown in a
window by links in a chain, the chain which turns the tourbillon. The
minutes display is retrograd as is traditional for Hautlence watches,
but the best is the visibility of all this in a wrap-around saphire
case. Thrown in to boot, it is an automatic winder too.
I have
been following the development of this watch for the last two years,
sworn to secrecy, and am very happy to see this come to light this
year. We see one of the two working prototypes here. Before it reaches
customers there is still work to be done to find color and plating
compinations to increase the legability.
New in production is also
the HLc in a smaller case aimed at female clientelle. As usual at
Hautlence each reference is limited to 88 pieces.
Note how the Hautlence
"infinity" logo has found it's place in the bridge forms.
Two new case and dial
variantes of the HLq (with date and seconds disk)
