ENICAR Digital "Jumping Hour" / 1970s Retro-Futurist Manual Wind

— Futurism of the 1970s, with the hands thrown away —

The "Digital" was created by the Swiss veteran Enicar amid the fever of the 1970s.

Discarding the very idea of hands and showing time as numerals was a bold move — and an emblem of a retro-futurism steeped in the air of the space age.

The spirit of an era that dreamed of the future sits on the wrist exactly as it was.

— Marking the instant: the jumping hour —

A jumping hour, where the disc switches over instantly, shows not time flowing but the moment being struck.

Expressing "digital" through a mechanical movement is an act of real originality — and precisely the image of the future that people then held in their minds.

At the instant the numeral jumps, the quiet rhythm of the machine reaches your fingertips.

— Deep hairlines, and a quiet tension —

The substantial tonneau case carries a vertical hairline finish.

It drinks in the light and wavers slightly as it does — a quiet statement of 1970s industrial beauty that sharpens the retro-futurist form further still.

Inside is the 17-jewel manual-wind Cal.236.

— Where retro and future cross —

Avant-garde design and mechanical warmth coexisting: there is nothing else quite like it.

A model that sealed in the futurism of the 1970s as it was, and still delivers a fresh surprise today.

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