HYT H3 Video Watch Instruction Manual

HYT H3 Video Watch

Product Information

The HYT watch is a Hydro-mechanical Horology timepiece that combines traditional watchmaking with fluid mechanics. Each watch bears an individual identification number to guarantee its authenticity and that a master watchmaker has supervised its creation. The watch also features a fluidic module that displays time via the meniscus, which marks the boundary between two immiscible fluids in the capillary. The movement of the watch drives the fluidic module via bellows fixed on the main plate. This fluidic system is unique and can only be replaced by a professional watchmaker approved by HYT. The watch comes with an electronic guarantee certificate, which can be activated upon purchase from an approved HYT retailer for a period of five years.

Product Usage Instructions

1. Ensure that your HYT watch is set and ready to be worn.
2. When storing the watch for an extended period, unscrew the crown and pull it out to position C (time setting).
3. Allow the colored liquid to move into Zone II until it starts its retrograde, ensuring that the time needed for this movement is respected.
4. Once the retrograde phase is complete (colored liquid in Zone I), ensure that the crown remains in the time setting position C.
5. To reactivate the watch, set the time and push the crown back to position 0.
6. Only use retailers approved by HYT or their customer services for any service, repair or maintenance procedures. Any repair or maintenance work carried out by third parties not approved by HYT will void the guarantee, and any damage caused will have to be repaired at your expense.
7. For additional information on the correct way to use your watch, including specific videos and texts, download the app and scan the QR code on your electronic guarantee certificate.

Precaution for use

Your HYT watch is set and ready to be worn. The meniscus1 in the capillary3 displays the time continuously while the watch is on your wrist, even if you wear it in extreme temperatures (0°C to +50°C).

Important :
If you plan to not wear the watch for a while, the coloured liquid has to be stored in its own reservoir (on the left bellows2). To do this, unscrew the crown and pull it out to position C (time setting). Allow the coloured liquid to move into “Zone II” until it starts its retrograde (ensure the time needed for this movement is respected). Once the retrograde phase is complete (coloured liquid in “Zone I”), ensure that the crown remains in the time setting position C. Your watch is now ready to be stopped for an extended period. The capillary3 is then filled with transparent liquid (it is possible to still see some coloured liquid in “Z one I”).

Produced and tested to very stringent criteria, the constituent components of your HYT watch together form an exceptionally water resistant unit (to a depth of 50 metres). To ensure these qualities are preserved, we recommend that you replace the gaskets every 3 years. Temperature variations, moisture, perspiration or repeated impacts may adversely affect its water resistance over the years. With its water resistant case, your HYT watch is fully washable. It should be cleaned regularly in lukewarm, soapy water, rinsed and then carefully dried with a soft cloth. After exposure to sea water, rinse your HYT watch in fresh water.

Glossary

1. Fluidic module:
   To create a liquid time indicator that is compact, wearable and multi-purpose, HYT has developed a completely new high-tech concept, using two flexible bellows at each end of a capillary tube. The system is sealed in accordance with the most stringent standards used in the aerospace industry, with each bellow containing immiscible liquids. The fluidic module represents this complete system.

2. Meniscus:
   The two liquids are separated by the positive and negative polarities of their respective molecules that keep them apart like magnetic repulsion. The meniscus marks the surface separating the liquids in the tube, indicating the time.

3. Bellows:
   The bellows are the two reservoirs located at the beginning and the end of the capillary. They are made of a highly resistant, flexible electro-deposited alloy four times finer than a human hair. The movement compresses the left- hand bellows which is emptied of its coloured liquid. The other bellows then fills, and vice versa, moving the liquid within the capillary, and with it the meniscus which indicates the time.

4. Capillary:
   This tube, made from the best quality glass as used in the medical industry, is circular in shape and contains two immiscible liquids. A nanometric surface treatment is applied to this inside of the capillary, which enables the two liquids to move smoothly without adhering to the glass.

5. Retrograde:
   When the coloured liquid gets to 6 am, 12 pm, 6 pm (18h00) and 12 am (midnight), (Zone II), it switches to retrograde mode, flowing back to its original position (Zone I).

Quick guide

1. Liquid hour indicator
2. Linear retrograde minute display
3. Crown settings
4. Pos A.: crown screwed down – «N»
5. Pos A ’.: crown unscrewed – «N»
6. Pos B.: winding (pulled out) – «R»
7. Pos C.: time setting – «H» (pulled out)
8. Power reserve indicator (located on the case back)
9. Crown position indicator (H-N-R)
10. Hour display
11. Push-button for a quick setting of the hour display

Screw-down crown

Pos A.

INTRODUCTION
This type of crown provides excellent protection to ensure the case is water resistant. The crown must be unscrewed before changing the watch settings and screwed back down afterwards.

HOW TO USE

• Unscrew the crown before changing the watch settings
• Afterwards, push the crown back in against the case and screw it back down
• Check from time to time that the crown is fully screwed down

WINDING

Pos B.

INTRODUCTION
This function ensures that the power required to drive your watch is stored by the movement.

HOW TO USE

• Unscrew the crown before changing the watch settings from «A» to «A’»
• Wind the watch by turning the crown clockwise «B»
• Afterwards, push the crown back in against the case and screw it back down «A».

Setting the time

Pos C.

INTRODUCTION
This function allows the time shown on your watch to be set using the cr own.

IMPORTANT

• Moving the microfluids within the capillary3 should be approached with as much caution as setting a perpetual calendar or a minut e repeater
• We highly recommend that the fluid is only moved 10 minutes with each movement of the crown
• This should mean tha t moving the fluid a full hour tak es no more than 12 sec onds.

HOW TO USE

• Unscrew the crown and pull it out t o position “C”
• Then turn the crown in either direction until the coloured liquid (hour display) and the minute hand is at the time required
• Push the crown in completely against the case
• Do not forget to screw in the crown completely to ensure its water resistance.

RETROGRADE
The automatic return of the coloured liquid (retrograde)4 is allowed by the pressure of the two bellows2. The speed is higher when the retrograde starts in “Zone II” and is minimal when the liquid approaches its starting point in “Zone I”.

Setting the time and the hour display (Quick way)

Push Button
The time is set using a push-button located on the left of the watch. With each press, the central time display bar turns on itself by one quarter of a turn. This ingenious principle enables the desired time period to be quickly set by jumping in period of six hours, at your choice. Next, the movement of the crown enables the exact hour and minutes chosen to be set within this period.

Setting the time counter CLOCKWISE
It is completely possible to set your watch counter clockwise.

Warning : counter clockwise movement of the crown must be stopped immediately if the coloured liquid is no longer visible or if it is stored in “Zone I”.

display time examples

Power reserve indicator

INTRODUCTION
This power reserve indicator function provides a real-time display of your watch’s power, thereby indicating how long it will continue to run without the spring being r ewound.

HOW TO USE
The display uses a small hand on the dial which travels in an arc from the “full” indicator to the “empty” indicator (red indicator) To ensure optimal operation of the watch, we recommend that you check it is fully wound (see WINDING).

Crown position indicator (H-N-R)

INTRODUCTION
The crown-position hand (H-N-R) allows you to know if you are either setting the time (H), winding-up the power-reserve (R) or central (N) when the crown is in its neutral position.

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