Antoine Griezmann, the rising French international striker, is considered by his peers to be one of the best centre-forwards in world football. Racing team Panis-Barthez Compétition is represented by Olivier Panis and Fabien Barthez, two legendary sportsmen who have both risen to the top of their fields in careers which span more than two decades.
To date, Olivier Panis is still the last French driver to win a Formula One Grand Prix (on the legendary Monaco race track back in 1996); Fabien Barthez is the most successful international goalkeeper in the history of French football, he was crowned best goalkeeper of the tournament in the 1998 World Cup, and then went on to launch his career in motorsport.Antoine Griezmann, the rising French international striker, is considered by his peers to be one of the best centre-forwards in world football.
Panis has won the Formula One Grand Prix in Monaco
Racing team Panis-Barthez Compétition is represented by Olivier Panis and Fabien Barthez, two legendary sportsmen who have both risen to the top of their fields in careers which span more than two decades. To date, Olivier Panis is still the last French driver to win a Formula One Grand Prix (on the legendary Monaco race track back in 1996); Fabien Barthez is the most successful international goalkeeper in the history of French football, he was crowned best goalkeeper of the tournament in the 1998 World Cup, and then went on to launch his career in motorsport.
These three exceptional men share the same passion for sport, with great humility, integrity, and professionalism: key values in elite sportsmen. Through their passion and performance, these two generations of sporting legends have naturally come to embody the values of HYT.
The legendary 24 Hours of Le Mans
The H4 Panis-Barthez Compétition is a high-tech timekeeping instrument which delivers outstanding performance in all environments, both day and night. In this timepiece, a green fluid loaded with fluorescent nanoparticles moves inside a jet black case, framed with a notched bezel in satin-finished titanium. HYT and Panis-Barthez Compétition have designed the centre of the watch to express all the power of the endurance racing world, by picking up the colours of the steering wheels on their cars. The seconds indicator and the power reserve are therefore adorned with blue, red and green. The minute track is topped with a sapphire bridge, over which passes a red hand, guaranteeing the high level of legibility demanded of sports watches. Each bridge on the H4 is cut out to reduce its weight, just like a race car. Finally, in a nod to the legendary 24 Hours of Le Mans race which runs right through the night, the H4 Panis-Barthez Compétition is fitted with the HYT light module. When the push-button crown at 4:30 marked with the word “Flash” is pressed, the timepiece lights up mechanically, making the fluorescent green fluid which indicates the time glow spectacularly, like a gauge.
H4 Panis-Barthez Compétition by swiss luxury watch company HYT
Functions:
Retrograde fluidic hours, minutes, and secondsHYT’s exclusive patented micro-fluidic module:
– Two multi-layer metal bellows
– Capillary tube in medical grade glass, with interior nano-coating
– Two immiscible liquids; one transparent and the other coloured with a highly resistant dye
– Thermal compensator with dedicated bellows containing a special liquid
– Ceramic fluid restrictors
Movement:
Skeleton mechanical hand-wound movement, HYT exclusive calibre
– 28,800 Vph, 4 Hz, 35 jewels
– Hand-bevelled bridges, rhodium-plated main plate and bellows
– 65-hour power reserve
Blue light mechanical module:
– System activation and winding function with push-button crown at 4:30
– Dynamo system activated when the crown at 4:30 is pressed. When this button is released, the light is deactivated until the additional barrel spring is completely decompressed
Case:
Black DLC titanium (bezel and dome)
– Diameter: 51 mm
– Height: 17.9 mm
– Two crowns in DLC titanium; black rubber-sheathed screw-down crown at 2:30 and at 4:30
– Dome in DLC titanium
– Hour bezel in DLC titanium with numerals varnished in black satin-finished (“start” and “return” varnished in matte white)
– Domed sapphire crystal with anti-reflective coating on the dial side
– Metallic screw-down sapphire case-back with Panis-Barthez Compétition transfer
– Water-resistant to 50 metres
Dial:
Unstructured, fluid hour display
– Sapphire power reserve and minute & seconds dial
– Regulator at 12 o’clock
– Minute numerals and indices engraved and varnished in white
– Minute hand in black PVD with red varnish; luminescent at the centre
– Small seconds wheel at 9.30 with green, blue and red transfer; white numerals
– Power reserve indicator at 2:30 engraved and varnished in red, blue and green with white transfer
Strap:
Black rubber base with integrated NOMEX™ centre and black stitching, black DLC titanium folding buckle
Ref.: 151-DL-08-GF-RN; 20-piece limited edition
