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Raising The Bars - OPUS 8 Mechanical Digital

The Opus 8 from Harry Winston Rare Timepieces is surely some innovation! Inspired by early electronic LED watches of the 1970s (like the first Hamilton Pulsar), creator Frédéric Garinaud (of Renaud & Papi) & CSH developed the Opus 8 with a new twist on mechanical-digital watches. Time is shown by pulling the side-lever down which in turn activates mechanical pixels to rise up from the digitally segmented dial displaying the hour of the day, am/pm, and indication of minutes by rising five minute markers located in a vertical scale next to the primary display. Things will be better explained when you look at the images.

Compiled by Mahdin Mahboob