Jack Forster
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Was lucky enough to see it in person at Basel with Eric and. . .
. . . felt very privileged to do so. A few quick thoughts. Pics as usual don't give an accurate impression -that's just the nature of the beast. The movement actually seems to float inside the flattened sapphire tube created to encase it much more so than the pictures seem to convey. Pictures appear on the internet and become widely distributed, and on those we all form impressions, which is fair, but it's not a substitute for seeing and handling the real thing.
One other note is that the box is pretty heavy and the staff who had to shift it around were working pretty hard to lift it 
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I personally found it very successful. I think there's a tendency to rush to judgement on pieces like this -the 'net encourages us all to display finalized opinions instead of framing our initial reactions as exactly that, and I think this is a piece worth seeing and handling, and then thinking about.
Jack Forster
Opus 9..personal take after 5 hours
Pictures taken by Ian Skellern In Opus 9, diamonds are not a decorative elements, but the functional!. Teamed up watchmaker Jean-Marc Wiederecht and haute designer Eric Giroud . I won't be surprised if all expect me to say really bad stuff about Opus 9. I...
Interesting watch
Harry Winston is very innovative with Opus to be sure. What is frustrating however is that Opus 3 is always talked about as if it exists, yet it does not. And Harry Winston never releases any official word about it at all. The rumors were that it would fi...
Sensei...my thought on the Opus 9
purely base on the photo.....it look likes a design gimmick . I don't like it at all. I like the Opus 8 alot better. For me, Opus 3, 5 and 8 are the ones *CL
it does makes opus 8 a lot more attractive
thats the 1st reaction i have seeing it for the 1st time... it might make sense if its chain mechanism power train can make good the delivery of opus 3... no offense but personally i feel the direction they r taking now r more cater toward a new weath gro...
You are 100% correct about the direction.
I feel this in the same way...much more "obvious" and much more "show", it's the historical aspect of it. I fear that it will get worse, hence this Opus 9, and the 8, may be catching the end of a tide. On the subject of the Cabestan, yes and yes..it is we...
Number 9
Though Opus 9 is very impressive and remarkable, something's missing. If we consider the Opus series as a concept, Number 9 smells like a Michelin 3 stars menu warmed in a microwave. Opus 1 to 5 where Max's babies, then Hamdi gave birth to 6 to 8 while la...
Max, and actually the commune he created, made Opus1 to 5 and began also 6.
Howvever, I think much political tussles between the East coast stateside and geneva "may have" resulted in several babies being attributed wrong surnames and parents...to simply carying the analogy further, in a mischevoius way. The Tourbillon Gliss, Opu...
Seems that
one of the highlights of the Opus 9 is the sapphire crystal case, which is difficult to manufacture. Any info on this? I like the concept of the linear representation of time. The other watch that did this was the Christophe Claret "Dual Tow". While total...
The Dual Tow is way cooler and looks better imho
You are right...the dual tow is a watch I like better for any number of reasons. Cool!
IMHO the Opus9 is pretty refined and the DT is a disaster
The DT is a putting to show of all kinds of complications for their own sake, time shown on rubber bands, let everyone know you are playing with your chrono because it chimes each time you use the pusher, chrono with differential because it is more compli...
Was lucky enough to see it in person at Basel with Eric and. . .
. . . felt very privileged to do so. A few quick thoughts. Pics as usual don't give an accurate impression -that's just the nature of the beast. The movement actually seems to float inside the flattened sapphire tube created to encase it much more so than...
What..you actually believe me? Chuckles...
Kidding Jack. I do like Opus 9. Also because I am looking from a customers pOV..as in "would I save up to buy it"? And..I have so far, supported Eric's POV of design, especially in MBF1,2 and 3. Eric has done all sorts of work, from conseras in Tissot..to...
Hey, who knew. Listen, speaking of seeing things in person. . .
. . . I also got around to meeting Ivan Castro and his team at Nubeo and I gotta say, I get what you were talking about when you first started championing his work over here -again, another case of needing to see it in person and keeping an open mind abou...
Thanks Jack. I guess I care about my hobby.
And I guess it's important to me how I spend any of my time...especially "free time", ie time that I get to choose how to spend it. Looking at work from creative sources is one way I chose to spend free time...books and new watches are just 2. So,,,I sort...
You're not meant to be in Basel....
Jack: in fact, you're not meant to be anywhere..... Have you got over your fear of flying? Or did you take the boat like Florentine Jones? Regards, MTF PS: I know...I know: You have no fear of flying.....it's just a fear of crashing. Or: Flying is the 2nd...
LOL I would like to say necessity was the mother of courage but in this case. . .
. . . I have discovered that the path to aerial nirvana lies, more or less, in the warm embrace of a liberal application of benzodiazepines to the ol' synapses . It seems to be a church with a lot of members too, at least when in the air. I think my big b...
Also known as "Pharamaceutical Business Class".
BTW - Nice to meet you the other day Jack. Cheers Tony P
Hahaha, ain't it the truth ;)
. . . better living through chemistry. It was really great to meet you too Tony -funny how that can happen even at a mob scene like the Basel Fair. Incidentally I really appreciated your professional evaluation of two of the individuals involved in the pr...
Guts?
What do we know about the guts of this beast? One of the things I have always enjoyed about the Opus line was the blending of some fantastic designs with some cutting-edge horology. Even the 8, not to my taste, had to come up with some real interesting de...
I guess none of the Opus were to my tastes, not one...but there's the wonder.
Every Opus taught me something. I may be more stupid than the majority of the market, but I actually learnt from all the Opus about caring and attitude to work. So...for me, it was wonderful that no Opus was to my tastes...all of them taught me about tast...