Sicura Jump Hour – The Budget Bond Villain of the Watch World

Because sometimes telling time should involve squinting and slight confusion.

🕰️ A Quick Jump into History

Before Breitling scooped them up, Sicura was the Swiss brand with a serious flair for wild design and let’s-just-go-for-it energy. They made dive watches, pilot watches, and—in a glorious fit of 1970s bravado—jump hour digitals that look like they were designed by a Bond villain's nephew on a sugar high.

You didn’t just wear a Sicura Jump Hour.
You deployed it.

🔢 Wait, What’s a Jump Hour Again?

Glad you asked.

A jump hour watch doesn’t use hands like your grandad’s polite little Omega. Instead, it uses rotating discs to display the time through little cutouts, like a mechanical slot machine that pays in minutes and existential doubt.

With a jump hour, the hour “jumps” instantly instead of crawling—making it weirdly satisfying to watch. The Sicura adds in a rotating minute disc and sometimes a date, if the movement gods were feeling generous.

🧨 The Design: Peak 70s Chaos (and We Love It)

• 💣 Chunky chrome case (often shaped like a brick with ideas)

• 🧊 Mirror-polished surfaces that double as emergency signalling mirrors

• 🪩 A dial window the size of a postage stamp

• 🔲 Discs that tick over with the drama of a Cold War defection

It looks like it should control a nuclear submarine, but mostly it tells you it’s 2:47… maybe 2:48.

⚙️ The Movement Inside (aka: What’s Ticking?)

Most Sicura jump hours run off basic pin-lever or low-grade mechanical movements, but that’s part of the charm. You didn’t buy this for COSC accuracy—you bought it because it looks like the dashboard of a Citroën SM.

Wind it daily. Treat it gently. And don’t expect it to survive a parachute jump.

🕵️♂️ Who Wore This?

Let’s be honest: no one knows.

But we like to imagine:

• A disco-era car salesman with mirrored aviators

• An international spy with a limited budget

• Your uncle who insists digital watches peaked in 1978

🛠️ Common Issues (and How to Love Them Anyway)

• Hour disc doesn’t jump? It might just be lazy. Give it a nudge.

• Crystal foggy? That’s not fog, it’s patina.

• Running 5 minutes fast? Consider it a feature, not a flaw—you’re just ahead of your time.

💸 Value & Availability

These little oddballs still go for £50–£150 depending on condition, branding (Sicura made some unbranded models too), and whether the case still has edges.

You’ll find them:

• On eBay, nestled among broken calculators

• At boot sales, hiding next to retired Casios

• Occasionally at RedRoosterUK... if we haven’t hoarded them already

🎯 Final Thoughts: The Joy of the Jump

A Sicura Jump Hour won’t make you rich. It won’t impress Rolex guys.
But it will make you smile every time you check the time and go,
“…huh. That’s cool.”

And isn’t that what collecting is all about?

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