Whimsy, frivolity, playfulness: these are not adjectives one often hears used to describe haute horlogerie.
And yet these words accurately describe many watches or clocks built over the centuries. Since the beginning of horology, watch and clockmakers have been designing and making mechanisms displaying a less-than-serious side, providing an outlet for their creativity and creating a sense of playfulness.
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.
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.
