HD3 Automatic Wristwatches – A Creative Trinity

HD3 Timepieces – Creative Harmony

Three designers with a shared passion for design, a love of liberty, and the inherent need to excel have forged a creative harmony with astounding results. Jörg Hysek, Valerie Ursenbacheç and Fabrice Gonet form the core of HD3—a collective inspired by the same passion, resulting from fifteen years of working together The first project to emerge from HD3 comprises one specific timepiece from each of the designers, outfitted with complicated, exclusive La Joux-Perret and BNB movements and limited to a maximum of thirty-three pieces each.

Hysek is no doubt the most well-known of the HD3 trio. His work previous to this interesting project is well-documented in both the pen and watch industries, He is a designer whose style is both refined and technically sophisticated. After working at Rolex for four years, Hysek founded his own design agency called Hysek Styling. He and his team created the looks for Breguet’s Marine, the Kirium by TAG I-leuer, Ebel’s Shanta, the AD 2000 for Dunhill, and—of course—the Jorg Hysek Kilada product range for Järg Hysek’s own brand, which came under new ownership a couple of years ago.

Prolifically creative, Hysek uninhibitedly builds on the strong identity and immediate recognition of the products he creates, His prestigious works of art are stamped with his own brand of exclusivity and individuality; his timekeepers are designed for those sensitive to these aesthetic qualities—as evidenced by his newest timepiece Idalgo XT-1, the first timepiece by HD3 to be outfitted with a movement designed especially for it.

Passionate Wristwatch HD3 Design

Ursenbacher, passionate about design, was attracted to the watch world from the start. She applied for a position as a designer with Hysek Styling, where it soon became clear that she was exceptionally talented: at just twenty-four years of age, she was promoted to head of the agency’s creative department, becoming an associate in 2000. Watchmaking fascinates Ursenbacher because it is an art form full of constraints, where the creator is obliged to constantly search for new forms and ideas. Her Capture timepiece illustrates her way of navigating these issues perfectly.

At the age of only seventeen, Gonet was already a design fanatic, and thus decided to search out Hysek, who became his mentor during his training years with Hysek Styling. Gonet’s specific style is aggressive and athletic, inspired by mechanical engineering, particularly the technical and innovative elements of it. This is very obvious in his rectangular Raptor model, the latest incarnation of which is a chronograph.

Three minds, a symbiosis, resulting in exclusive horological creations that are in continual evolution: this is the heart of HD3. Thus, after each having designed their own models, the three joined forces to create the Three Minds timepiece. The innovative display of this automatic watch is dominated by three rotating disks (hours, minutes, seconds), while the case back embodies a new way of looking at the movement of an automatic rotor The overall design reflects the attention to technical and aesthetic perfection that has developed into the essence of HD3’s creativity: becoming one.

TITANIUM & WHITE GOLD HD3, IDALGO XT1 COMPLICATION, NO. $21,000.00

HD3 Idalgo XT2 Limited Edition 33 Only Rose Gold New! $10,600.00

HD3 Idalgo XT2 Unique Piece Only 1 watch in the World! $10,100.00

HD3 Idalgo XT2 Unique Piece Only 1 watch in the World ! $3,050.00

HD3 Idalgo XT1 White Gold/Black PVD Limited 33 NEW! $2,025.00

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