At Watches and Wonders 2025, eccentric Swiss watch model, Hautlence, launched a timepiece that transforms right into a robotic.
The Retrovision ’85 will not be formally related to Hasbro’s Transformers toys — which change between robots and objects comparable to vehicles, planes, and music tapes — although the nod to those reworking toys, which first arrived in 1984, is clear.
As a wristwatch, the Retrovision ’85 measures 64 mm x 60 mm x 11.8 mm, which is borderline unwearable. It suits your wrist in the identical manner most sculpture-like watches do: protruding over the perimeters.
As a desk clock (robotic standing on a platform), the size are expanded to 70 mm x 96 mm x 43 mm, nonetheless, as soon as it’s in your hand or on a desk, the outsized dimensions matter far lower than when worn in your wrist.
The watch case, bezel, and crown are product of titanium (with a frosted end) utilizing 3D printing with partial copper-colored PVD coating. The dial is protected by a beveled rectangular sapphire crystal and the caseback by a flat circular-shaped sapphire crystal.
Hautlence’s automated Vagabonde Tourbillon motion powers the central minute disc-based show, which has the graduations printed instantly on the glass in white, and the three-hour satellites (made in brass and coated with purple PVD) that rotate and show the hours in a wandering configuration.
The Hautlence caliber D31 options an automated 39-jewel motion, geared up with a tourbillon and double hairspring, 217 parts, that beats at 3Hz and affords a 72-hour most energy reserve.
Restricted to eight items, the Retrovision ’85 (Ref. ED31-TI00) is water resistant to 50 meters, and comes with a black rubber strap, with a toolless quick-release system to effortlessly remodel between wristwatch and robotic clock. The estimated retail value is $100,000.
Images by Hautlence.
