De 30 de Setembro a 4 de Outubro decorre em Cascais a etapa portuguesa do 2015 RC44 Championship Tour, considerada a classe Fórmnula Um da vela e, pela primeira vez, os relógios HYT patrocinam o circuito.
Sendo os únicos marcadores do tempo a usar fluídos para dizer as horas, os HYT estão assim no seu meio preferido... o líquido. Serão Official Timekeeper da prova.
Para comemorar esta primeira parceria da marca no mundo da vela, serão lançados uma série limitada de relógios especialmente desenhados para a RC44 Class Association.
Reflectindo a natureza da classe, os relógios serão "o pináculo da inovação em engenharia, materiais high-tech e design", anuncia a marca.
Um dos rostos mais visíveis da classe é Russel Coutts, fundador da RC44 Class Associatione cinco vezes vencedor da America's Cup.
A nona edição do RC44 Championship Tour terá início em Valletta, Malta, de 25 a 29 de Março. Seguem-se regatas em Porto Cervo, Itáli; ilha de Marstrand, Suécia; Cascais, Portugal; e Ilhas Virgem Britânicas.
Sobre a classe RC44:
Imagine driving a car designed by Formula One legend Michael Schumacher. The RC44 is sailing’s equivalent, the boats are designed by five times America’s Cup winner, Russell Coutts.
Since its launch in 2007, the RC44 Championship Tour has established itself as a key series on the international yacht racing circuit. Co-designed by five-time America’s Cup winner Russell Coutts and naval architect Andrej Justin the RC44 is a light displacement, high performance one-design racing yacht.
Reading like a who’s who of sailing’s greatest achievers, from America’s Cup legends to Olympic champions, the RC44 Championship Tour brings together the worlds of sailing and business. Allowing amateur owner drivers to race, high performance one-design yachts, with the world’s elite sailors at some of the most beautiful sailing venues around the world.
The Tour is made up of two elements – one day of match racing where the pro skippers or owner drivers get their chance to shine at the helm and four days of owner helmed fleet racing.
Sobre a HYT:
HYT’s Hydromechanical Horologists have turned fantasy into reality, mixing mechanics and liquid within a wristwatch. While addicted to non-conformism, these alchemists have drawn upon the strictest codes of fine watchmaking, and shattered them.
THE PRINCIPLE
Two flexible reservoirs with a capillary attached at each end. In one, a coloured liquid; in the other, a transparent one. Keeping them apart is the repulsion force of the molecules in each fluid.
The hours are indicated by the coloured liquid released from a flexible reservoir compressed by a piston. These reservoirs, or bellows, are located at six o’clock and are made from a supple alloy. The first coloured liquid travels through the capillary pushing the transparent one back into its own reservoir and then returning to its original position at six o’clock in what is referred to as a retrograde manner.
The two reservoirs at 06:00. While the first compresses, the second expands, and the other way round, resulting in the movement of the liquid in the capillary. As the hours go by, the coloured liquid advances. The meniscus, in the shape of a half moon, marks the separation point with the other fluid in the tube, indicating the time. At 18:00, the coloured liquid comes back to its original position, going backwards. The secret that gets the reservoirs going? Two bellows made of a highly resistant, flexible alloy, each driven by a piston. And this is where watchmaking comes in to activate the system.
HYT is continuing its all-encompassing quest for hybridisation by introducing its new collection: the H2. This timepiece was born of a vision shared by the teams of HYT and Audemars Piguet Renaud & Papi overseen by Giulio Papi.
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