Axl Rose teams with HYT to design the most hardcore luxury watch at SIHH 2017
HYT collaborates with Guns N’ Roses frontman Axl Rose on a limited-edition watch
The first – and only – brand to manufacture hydromechanical watches, HYT stands apart in aesthetic and industrial design.
Mechanics aside, HYT is renowned for its non-conformist design – and who better to make a statement that embodies the brand’s rebellious edge than Guns N’ Roses frontman Axl Rose?
Rose and HYT have launched a limited edition exclusively designed by the artist – the Skull Axl Rose.
Like Rose’s prior favourite – HYT’s Maori – the Skull Axl Rose has a titanium case, but features a leather cuff that adds to the watch’s edgy look.
The dial features the collection’s signature steel skull – this time in electric blue.
Like all HYT’s fluidic timepieces, two liquids – one coloured and one transparent – are siphoned through a capillary that circles the skull. Each fluid is housed in a reservoir that are powered by two bellows that are driven by a pistons. The liquid meets a corresponding index on the dial, and thus indicates the hour – but not the minutes.
There is a seconds disc housed in the skull’s left eye, and a power reserve indicator in the right.
The 25-piece limited-edition watch has a sapphire case back that features Rose’s signature and the Guns N’ Roses logo.