Horological Meandering

Harry Winston at BaselWorld 2010

 

Now we are up to an anniversery, it is time for the Opus10.
This year the man behind the Opus is Jean-François Mojon the head of Chronode in Le Locle, one of the many companies working in the shadows on the conception and production of high-end watches.
The Opus10 is not the fall-over, WOW!! type watch, it works more on the poetic level, despite its big dimensions.
3 dials float and turn in a cluster like a rose branch with multiple flowers.  Through a differential mechanism as they turn the dials still remain correctly oriented.  The 3 dials are the hours, minutes and seconds.  A second time zone is shown by a hand carried by the cluster showing a 24 hour scale, the cluster turning once a day.
To add to the peotic effect, the sub-dials are all at a small angle to the plane of the dial.  (Imagine trying to assembly that and never slip with your screwdriver!!)
End the words, here the pictures.

Also new this year the Z6.  This alarm watch has a very pleasant chime to wake you.

At the comment that I was missing any hint of Harry Winston's signature products I got to see these Lady Z watches.  Note the subtle differences.