Just Announced: HYT Introduces the H1 Ghost

HYT's new H1 Ghost

We sometimes imagine them to be black. Or, sometimes wearing a white sheet, sometimes misty and transparent. In the collective unconscious, ghosts are like the passing of time or the time we have remaining: elusive.

The H1 Ghost combines all these ideas. It has been designed around a new black fluid produced in-house by Preciflex, HYT’s sister company which is responsible for developing fluids for HYT. But this fluid is unlike any other; it is completely opaque. A first for HYT.

This is not just an aesthetic challenge; an opaque fluid does not emit or reflect any light. This means that come night, it is invisible. However, so that the H1 Ghost can be read in the dark, HYT developed a unique use of Super-LumiNova: the material illuminates the capillary from underneath along its entire translucent stretch, beyond the black fluid.

The translucent dial includes a power
reserve indicator near 2 o'clock.

In concrete terms, this means that in the dark, the H1 Ghost does not only display the elapsed time, but also the remaining time up to 6 o’clock. When it reaches this precise moment, the fluid performs its retrograde movement.

“This is a display method that has roots in the modern collective unconscious,” explains Vincent Perriard, CEO of HYT. "For example, when downloading something, we look at the remaining time, and not the minutes or hours that have already passed. On the H1 Ghost, the time remaining before 6 o’clock is not insignificant. Whether it is 6 o’clock in the evening or the morning, it is the time remaining until a new day... or the beginning of the night.” 

The black fluid is legible in the dark thanks
to the luminous material underneath.

Light from the Dark 

The aesthetic features of the H1 Ghost play on this duality. Day and night, light and darkness are constantly in contrast. The black DLC titanium case presents alternating brushed, micro-blasted and satin-finished finishes, but their intense black only serves to better reflect the light.

These very dark, nocturnal tones highlight the white hour and minute indices and the white power reserve. Although in the minority, they are the most visible, dominating the black with their radiant white. The minute hand continues the fight: entirely black, it ends in a luminescent dot. And while the black fluid tirelessly pushes back its luminescent counterpart, only the light alone is capable of indicating the hour.

The H1 Ghost will only be released as a series of just 50 pieces. 

H1 Ghost

Technical Specifications 

Case: black DLC titanium with brushed, micro-blasted and satin-finished finishes

- Diameter: 48.8mm

- Height: 17.9mm

- Black rubber sheathed screw-down black DLC titanium crown

- Crown protector in black DLC titanium

- Screwed offset lugs

- Black DLC dome at 6 o'clock

- Domed sapphire crystal with anti-reflective coating on the dial side

- Screw-down sapphire caseback

- Water-resistant to 100 meters 

Functions: black retrograde fluidic hours; minutes, seconds 

Movement: Mechanical with manual winding, exclusive HYT caliber

- 28,800 Vph, 4 Hz, 35 jewels

- bridges hand-bevelled and adorned with Côtes de Genève, rhodium-plated bellows

- 65-hour power reserve

- bridges and main plates treated with anthracite grey NAC 

Dial: unstructured, fluid hour display

- Black hour dial, with white indices and numerals

- Hour chapter filled with Super-LumiNova®

- Minute dial in mass-dyed resin

- White Super-LumiNova® minute numerals and indices

- Black luminescent minute hand

- Minute counter at 12 o'clock

- Small seconds wheel at 9.30 using LIGA® technology

- Power reserve indicator with curved hand at 2:30 

Strap: black rubber, black DLC titanium ardillon buckle 

Product Reference: 148-DL-60-NF-RU 

Limited Edition: 50 pieces