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Hautlence Presents its New Avant-Garde Retrograde

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January 2013


Launched in 2012, the Avant-Garde line is Hautlence’s ready-to-wear collection designed to secure its future and expand its creative offering. The brand has created a stylish, powerful line from an alchemy of contemporary worlds, taking inspiration primarily from the curves and aesthetic codes of avant-garde design. The first HL RS models, which were unveiled in October 2012, were an immediate commercial success.

Hautlence's Avant-Garde - HL RQ 02
Hautlence’s Avant-Garde - HL RQ 02

Hautlence caused a stir 4 years ago when it launched the first round case in its history, the HL Q with a calendar, followed two years later by the more subtle HL Q Classic version. A fitting tribute to traditional watchmaking. This piece still bore all the brand’s hallmarks, namely a house movement and a specific display of the time with jumping hours, retrograde minutes and instantaneous calendar.

For 2013, the brand has incorporated the codes from these lines, reinterpreting them in a dynamic way to produce a brand new version as part of the AVANT-GARDE family. Distinguished by its ultra-modern appearance, which makes it much more of a lifestyle model, the HL RQ has a bolder and more robust style than its predecessors. The 44 mm case, made from steel with or without a black and titanium DLC coating, is more imposing thanks to its larger horns. The sapphire dial – designed by the brand – lends transparency and depth, revealing the in-house mechanical hand-wound movement with its jumping hours and retrograde minutes (thanks to the famous Hautlence connecting rods system) and its calendar. The impression of weightlessness is further enhanced by the overlapping discs which created a stepped effect.

Hautlence's Avant-Garde - HL RQ 03
Hautlence’s Avant-Garde - HL RQ 03

Created in Hautlence’s Atelier d’horlogerie contemporaine, the HL RQ line is available as an unlimited series. However, it still features the same degree of excellence in its hand “Côte de Genève” and hand angled bridges. The first two models in this line will be available to purchase from summer 2013, in two different versions:

AVANT-GARDE - HL RQ 02

Case in steel and titanium, sapphire dial. Alligator strap with titanium folding or pin buckle.

AVANT-GARDE - HL RQ 03

Case in titanium and steel covered by black DLC, sapphire dial. Alligator strap with titanium folding or pin buckle.

Source: Hautlence