OLTO-8 Chrono Gate Jumping 24 Hours (Open Caseback)

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€499,00 EUR

€499,00 EUR €176,00 EUR

OLTO-8 Chrono Gate Jumping 24 Hours (Open Caseback)

€499,00 EUR

€499,00 EUR €176,00 EUR

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Condition
Box and Paper	With original box, with original papers
Gender	Men's watch/Unisex
Location	Germany
Year of manufacture	2025
Water Resistance	50M
Crystal	Sapphire Crystal
Vibration Frequency	28800 Vibrations Per Hour
Power Reserve	40h
Winding	Automatic
Movment	In-house movement, OT.G102 with Self-Developed Module
Case
Case material	Stainless Steel
Diameter	42 mm
Thickness	14 mm
Dial color	See variants
Bracelet
Bracelet material	Leather
Bracelet color	See variants
Bracelet buckle	Pin buckle
Bracelet width	22mm taper to 20mm

At Wandering Hours, we hunt for independent horological creations that challenge mainstream design, and the ⁠OLTO-8 Chrono Gate delivers pure, interactive mechanical theatre to your wrist. Drawing rich inspiration from mid-20th-century aviation and exploration timepieces, this Chinese microbrand masterpiece revives a legendary, forgotten complication: the instantaneous 12-to-24-hour jumping sandwich dial. Featuring a classic, multi-layered guilloché dial with an asymmetric open-heart cutout, the Chrono Gate exposes a custom, cam-actuated "Time Key" hammer at 12 o’clock. Every twelve hours, this mechanical trigger instantly pivots the hidden internal discs, snapping the dial indices from a standard 12-hour layout to a military 24-hour display in a single, audible mechanical jump.

Engineered to transition seamlessly between vintage elegance and a rugged, industrial instrument, the 39mm case architecture sits at a highly wearable 46.7mm lug-to-lug distance. The dial's bowl-shaped typography is shielded under a dramatic, double-domed sapphire crystal treated with an anti-reflective coating, intensifying the visual depth of its sandblasted finishes and custom frosted hands. Powered by a deeply customized, high-beat proprietary OT.G102 automatic movement with a 40-hour power reserve, the watch is meticulously crafted in your choice of brushed 316L stainless steel or ultra-lightweight grade 2 titanium. Secured on a premium leather strap with 5 ATM water resistance, the Chrono Gate is built for collectors who want their watch to tell a story with every passing cycle.

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Frequently Asked Questions - About This Watch

Yes, this is the open caseback version.

There are 4 different variants available:
1, closed caseback
2, open caseback
3, open caseback + customized rotor
4, opne caseback + customized rotor + hand finished movement

Check the OLTO-8 brand watch collection for other variants.

Every 12 hours (at noon and midnight), a visible cam-actuated mechanical hammer flips the inner sapphire disc window, instantly changing the printed dial markers between a standard 12-hour and a military 24-hour layout.

The watch is driven by a highly reliable, custom-modified OT.G102 automatic caliber operating at a smooth high-beat rate, complete with an exhibition case back and a 40-hour power reserve.

You can choose between classic, highly polished 316L stainless steel or ultra-lightweight grade 2 titanium, which reduces the total watch head weight to a featherlight 63 grams for ultimate wrist comfort.

Purple and White: Stainless Steel
Blue and Red: Titanium

While core variants like Glacier Blue and Mystic Purple belong to the ongoing collection, rare heritage iterations like the Golden Era and the Arabic-numeral Olive Green are strictly limited collector runs (100 pics).

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