Time Jumpers: Five Luxury Watches with Jumping Hours

Here are five watches that include this jumping hour display in their timekeeping repertoire The 50th Anniversary edition has a blue lacquered dial with a jumping hour numeral in a round window at 12 o'clock, and the minutes and date on two retrograde hands, a distinctive timekeeping configuration that was a hallmark of pre-Bulgari Gérald Genta watches Lucerne-based Chronoswiss offers a variety of novel takes on the classic regulator dial, based on the designs of vintage observatory clocks and traditionally displaying hours and seconds on subdials and minutes on a large central hand.

In the Sirius Flying Regulator Jumping Hour model, the hours subdial is replaced by a digital indicator, with hour numerals in a curved aperture at 12 o'clock IWC's Pallweber revives a legendary historical pocketwatch developed by Salzburg-based watchmaker Josef Pallweber, who pioneered a digital timekeeping system with hours and minutes displayed by large numerals on rotating disks rather than by hands MeisterSinger Salthora Meta X.

Germany's MeisterSinger, renowned for its single-hand watches, unveiled its Salthora collection in 2014, which added a jumping hour numeral in a window at 12 o'clock to the hallmark center-mounted hand indicating the minutes The watch is powered by an automatic movement - either an ETA 2824-2 or a Sellita SW 200-1 - with an in-house module for the jumping hour. . Source