Description

The core of the Genus time-telling system is the snake-like arrangement of what Genus calls its "genera." These are diamond-shaped elements which orbit two sub-dials once per hour, and which indicate how many tens of minutes past the hour it is. The hour can be read off the pointer to the left, which indicates the hour via a rotating carrier which makes one full revolution every 12 hours; the number of minutes which have passed in each ten-minute interval is shown on a disk at the right, which rotates once every ten minutes.

Genus has made excellent use of the decorative potential of Super-LumiNova in its watches (we seem to be seeing more and more of this in the last few years as it becomes increasingly apparent that the material has excellent long-term physical stability), and the lights-out show the watch puts on is most engrossing, and illustrates the rather hypnotic motion of the genera as they orbit around the sub-dials.

The case color involves welding together different layers of either similar alloys, or different metals all together. For the GNS1.2 TD, Genus' case-maker welds together different titanium alloys, which turn blue at varying temperatures.