Amida Digitrend Open Saphir, the seventies jumping hour laid bare

Jumping hours are meant to be fascinating. But they're also practical, for checking the time from the side without taking your hands off the wheel, and aesthetic, for giving it a beautiful look. In this regard, the recent return of the Amida Digitrend is good news for lovers of vintage watches from the 1970s. It was in April 2024 that Clément Meynier, also founder of the watch brand Depancel, and his designer, Matthieu Allègre, relaunched this pilot's watch, originally presented in 1976 (the company closed its doors just three years later, in 1979), with a display directly inspired by a submarine's periscope.

The one sometimes nicknamed the DeLorean of watches, given its look and its past failure despite its legendary image, is this time back in a new version with a sapphire crystal cover. A unique opportunity to better understand the functioning of its discs dedicated to changing the hours and minutes within its case. Here, no traditional dial, but a jumping hours module as well as a sapphire prism, offering a lateral time display. This Digitrend Open Sapphire is powered by Soprod's Newton caliber, an automatic movement offering a 44-hour power reserve, with its jumping hours complication featuring a simplified architecture of only nine components.

Count on €5,760 to treat yourself to this Amida Digitrend Open Saphir in a limited edition of 150 pieces from the Parisian boutique Chronopassion .