UK innovation for ultimate luxury watches
Initial samples are crafted from the Swiss-made Ronda 5050B movement in combination with Hoptroff's unique microelectronics
Bespoke electronics from a UK silicon foundry power a movement that allows luxury watchmakers to produce the ultimate in customised timepieces.
The latest innovation from London-based Hoptroff, is 'The Clink' movement, named after the location of the company’s HQ on the South Bank of the Thames near the old Clink prison.
The ‘Clink’ is the most complicated Hoptroff movement since the company launched its collection at the Hong Kong Watch and Clock Fair in September and is aimed squarely at luxury watch makers.
The new movement generates a wealth of different function options, all of which are easily programmed to suit the user's and manufacturer's specifications. With a design that offers depth, as well as simplicity, The Clink is vying to become a future classic design on which watchmakers can build never-before-seen timepieces.
As with all Hoptroff movements, 'The Clink' caters for a wide range of unique complications offering manufacturers the flexibility to produce highly personalised timepieces. Three eyes (or subsidiary dials) can display any combination of information from multiple time zones for international business people, to functions that stargazers and explorers would welcome such as the time of the next high tide or sun rise/set. This degree of customization is unprecedented and is combined with reliability levels that are only possible using bespoke electronics.
Founder Richard Hoptroff said, "Our aim remains to bring together world-class movement technology with ingenuity in silicon design. Timekeeping electronics is once more a very innovative arena offering watchmakers new design opportunities which are unachievable mechanically.
“Following a long established tradition of British watch design, our movements will combine electronic trailblazing with the famed precision of Swiss manufacturing, to set new standards in luxury watch innovation."
Features include:
- Pointers can display any function from the Hoptroff 'Carte des Complications'
- Automated daylight saving time adjustment
- Perpetual calendar
- Provision for rechargeable batteries
- Temperature compensated crystal
Initial samples are crafted from the Swiss-made Ronda 5050B movement in combination with Hoptroff's unique microelectronics, but the design is intended to function with any movement with 4 stepper motors, allowing maximum flexibility for movement makers looking to integrate The Clink technology.
Based in London, Hoptroff timekeeping electronics is a silicon foundry specialising in the design and manufacture of watch movement electronics for highly personalised luxury timepieces.
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