Harry Winston and Vianney Halter

• manual winding movement, 47 jewels • dial consists of six magnified circular apertures, each with a coloured numeral for digital hour, minute, seconds and date display, blue for digital hours in upper left and right apertures, upper left with countdown of the four digital seconds before the minute jumps, black for digital minute in the lower left and right apertures, red for digital vertical date on the middle coloumn • 18k pink gold square case, horizontal winding crown, sapphire crystal display back secured by 4 screws • case, dial and movement signed • with an 18k pink gold Harry Winston folding buckle

Accompanied by a presentation box.

“For a timepiece to bear the Harry Winston name, it has to be exceptional.” –Harry Winston

To live up to Mr. Winston’s expectations, the brand has been demonstrating its tireless drive in perfection by its cooperation with various ingenious watchmakers in 2001, the beginning of Opus series. Since then, Harry Winston has been highly regarded as an avant-garde and adventurous watch manufacturer.

Opus 3 is the brain child of the brand and Vianney Halter, an independent French watchmaker renowned for his unorthodox designs. The aesthetics of this model lies on its retro-futuristic aura and intriguing time display method. Fascinated by dashboard counters and other types of measuring instrument since young, Vianny created Opus 3 as the first mechanical wristwatch with digital time display. The dial of the timepiece features six apertures, with each display equipped with jumping indicator to show the hour in the top left and right windows (blue), minutes in lower left and right (black), and date in the vertical central column (red). This mechanism, assumingly easy to read and function, took the brand 7 long years of painstaking efforts to create after its initial announcement in 2003. Nevertheless, when the first batch of the model has been delivered in 2010, the formidable combo was widely acclaimed for their one-of-a-kind creation.