Pre-Basel 2011 – HD3 Slyde

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Slyde

SAYING NO TO THE WATCHMAKING CRISIS
The HD3 workshops, tucked away in the village of Luins in the vineyards overlooking Lake Geneva, offer a perfect setting for creativity. It is here, for over five years now, that Jorg Hysek and his team of designers have been creating audacious timepieces that blend mechanical complexity and modern aesthetics. Two years ago, the crisis affecting the watch sector incited Jorg Hysek to call his company-model into question, and seek solutions to the global problems of supply and production in watchmaking techniques. No small task.
At the end of 2009, the supplier of movements to HD3 went bankrupt, inciting Jorg to adopt a totally new approach. He returned to a sketch from Christmas 2008, featuring a square case with a screen that modulates according to the time and the user's needs and wishes. Eighteen months later, SLYDE was born: a superb new-generation timepiece!

AN INNOVATIVE CONCEPT
SLYDE takes the underlying principle of the smartphone – the possibility to change applications by merely sliding a finger over a tactile screen – and adapts it to the world of 21st century watchmaking. Jorg Hysek was inspired by the automobile world ('which influences our entire aesthetic approach') in crafting the watch's streamlined appearance. He came up with a de luxe timepiece perfect for modern, aesthetic, instantaneous time-reading.

The refined, no-frills square case has a tactile screen that moves vertically and horizontally. This revolutionary display means that, by simply sliding across the watch screen, the user can generate an unlimited variety of timepieces on the wrist – corresponding to any event, desire, or particular moment. Creating a range of 'different' watches within a single timepiece is made possible thanks to a range of top-quality virtual modules, all linked exclusively to the concept of time.

HIGH-DEFINITION TIME
These applications, created by HD3 and designed by Swiss electronic engineers, can be downloaded over the internet. SLYDE covers all forms of Time:
- The Past, by inserting modules like the automatic count-down from private events, and the chance to personalize the watch by inserting photographs
- The Present, with the immediate creation of watch interfaces providing aesthetic, made-to-measure time-reading
- The Future, with an automatic countdown to future events as per the user's requirements
SLYDE is a veritable Swiss-made luxury watch, placing all the technological savoir-faire developed for its conception at the service of universal Time. There are no telephone applications, games, or other accessories among the customized modules. All that matters is apprehending Time, whether latent or real.

SLYDE watches are available with cases in black or grey titanium or in pink gold, in the purest tradition of Swiss watchmaking. Straps are in leather, printed alligator or rubber (5 colours). Every component of a SLYDE watch, complete with sapphire glass and water-resistant to a depth of 50m, derives from luxury watchmaking.

This high-definition watch nonetheless remains an affordable luxury: SLYDE is competitively priced at 4,000 Euros (download modules not included).

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[Andrea 65]

Ammazza quant'è brutto!! Che roba è

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avveniristico....

[EdoM]

Mi sembra un vecchio registratore di cassa, di quelli a manovella. Se questo è il futuro ...... 

[fabri5.5]

roba da matti,l'orologio touch screen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=es5d9eUw74M