HYT the SKULL, the brand’s new extraordinary and unprecedented creation, breaks all the rules. You don’t need to be an expert to appreciate the impact of its design. Even at first glance the piece makes a striking impression, simply because it epitomises and at the same time breaks away from everything that HYT represents. It’s a provocative, unique piece, a bold design supported by the fluid mechanics that have become the brand’s signature style. The SKULL speaks for itself. Its development, however, was anything but obvious.
The use of a capillary, which carries a fluid to act as the hour marker, is a concept that is already mastered by HYT and its partners. However, any significant changes in form require extensive background work. For the Skull, the skull shape of the tube, which measures less than one millimeter in diameter, was a significant challenge in itself. The issue centered on the capillary’s four angles, two of which are almost 90° at the base. These curves meant that bending the glass was a particularly delicate task.
In line with the raw, primitive imagery of the skull, HYT also decided to do away with the minutes. This bold choice has two consequences. Firstly, it shifts the main focus to the capillary, the only sensory indicator of time as it passes, and secondly it centres all the attention on the piece’s architectural design, with its assertive, confident skull, which occupies almost the entire surface of the dial. Similarly, in stark contrast to its other pieces, HYT chose to almost completely hide the movement on the dial side.
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