I am one guy who’s always in search of cool and funky watches and have collected quite a number of watches over the years. And I have found my latest crush in the Opus 8 watch by Harry Winston, which comes with a mechanical-digital display. This is not the first watch of this kind, Di Grisogono Meccanica DG was the first that used mechanical tubes to display the time. And the Opus 8 works using a complicated system of mechanical pixels that rise up from the display when the user activates a mechanism on the side of the case.
Opus 8 utilizes hand-wound mechanical movements to create a modern, digital time display. 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. Nothing appears until the mechanism is wound.
Technically, all functions are related, enabling everything to be displayed on demand - the minute hand turns the hour that then turns the AM/PM function. In addition, the back of the watch features a design resembling a printed circuit that functions as a second time display. AM and PM status are featured on the left, hours and minutes in the center, and a power reserve indicator is located on the right.
But to my dismay the series is said to be limited to 50 watches and the rumor is that all of them were sold out before the unveiling.
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