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Watch Review: Harry Winston unveils Avenue Dual Time

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Watch Review: Harry Winston unveils Avenue Dual Time

14 high-heeled shoes in the works, Harry Winston has just announced that the count called Avenue off-center dual time again. It has a left local time, by retrograde display - and family time on the right, through the traditional hour and minute hands.

The local time display (left) has a angled red indicator hand that moves through the three vertical apertures, indicating the hour. According to Harry Winston, “The second timezone works in a different way. Pulling on the crown removes the red hand from sight. The time is set using a small disc located in the opening at the center of the dial. Pushing in the crown, the hand returns to its position. This sequence is essential to the proper functioning of the retrograde system that displays the local time. The hand moves gradually from 0 to 12 o’clock, before instantly returning to 0 to start over.” read more

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Harry Winston’s Op 14 Launched Rock Style

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Harry Winston's Op 14 Launched Rock Style

Guests traveled to the event in classic American muscle cars from the ‘50s (mine was a 1959 Cadillac Eldorado) and were greeted by roller-skating hostesses before entering the main hall, which was decked out like a gigantic 1950s diner, complete with pinball machines, cocktail selections on old-fashioned diner menus, and black-and-white images of 1950s stars like Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, and Cary Grant. On the main stage, flanked by jukeboxes, Harry Winston CEO Nayla Hayek presented the watch, after which Thicke, freshly introduced as a Harry Winston brand ambassador and wearing an Opus 14, wowed the international crowd with an impromptu concert. read more

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An Introdyction Of Harry Winston Opus 14 Watch

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An Introdyction Of Harry Winston Opus 14 Watch

Since 1932, Harry Winston transforms diamonds into art and revolutionize modern jewelry and timepiece design, based on its founder’s incredible legacy.

The Harry Winston Opus series dates back to 2001, when then-CEO of Harry Winston Rare Timepieces, and since, founder and CEO of MB&F Maximilian Büsser and Francois-Paul Journe created the Opus With that, a wonderful venture into the very depths of the independent watchmaking universe began – and it continued in what turned into the Opus series of watches, where Harry Winston continued to work together with some of the greatest independent watchmakers of our time. Some 13 iterations later, in 2013, the project was believed by many to have come to its end when Swatch Group purchased Harry Winston. read more

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Harry Winston Histoire De Tourbillon 6 Watch

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Harry Winston has lately introduced another chapter within their Histoire p Tourbillon line, the Harry Winston Histoire P Tourbillon 6. It’s typically probably the most complicated watches, but launched using the smallest amount of functional illustrations - you suspected it: one front view. To sum everything up here real quick: a triple-axis tourbillon, another karussel, 683 parts, two time signs, resetting on the job the 2nd indication, carriage stop around the karussel, over 80 hrs of energy reserve, along with a monstrous 55-millimeter situation. Take everything into consideration, and you’ll understand why it baffles me why such halo pieces - because, in the end, such releases would be the epitome of halo releases - are first showed with only just one front look at the timepiece. Illustration-rant over, we are able to move onto similarly mind-dazzling, although a lot more interesting issues now - from the mechanical kind!

The left hands side from the highly asymmetrical Harry Winston Histoire p Tourbillon 6 dial is, obviously, centered through the triple-axis tourbillon, hidden under what seems to become a bulbous azure very as well as an arched bridge acquiring the whole mechanism. It is a fast animal too: the innermost carriage that consists of the total amount wheel and escapement pinion includes a 45-second rotation cycle, the intermediate carriage includes a 75-second rotation cycle, as the outer carriage takes 300 seconds to create a full rotation. Minimal common multiple of individuals figures is 900, meaning it requires around fifteen minutes for that balance wheel revisit its original position. Quite simply, the total amount wheel occupies exactly the same position only four occasions every hour. read more