Opus 12
500/MMEB46WL.K
| Brand : | Harry Winston |
| Collection : | Harry Winston Opus |
| Model : | Opus 12 |
| Reference : | 500/MMEB46WL.K |
| Complement : | White Gold - Alligator Bracelet |
| On sale : | 2012 |
PDF INDEX CARD
-
Brand : Harry Winston Collection : Harry Winston Opus Model : Opus 12 Reference : 500/MMEB46WL.K Complement : White Gold - Alligator Bracelet On sale : 2012 List Price : 240 600 € Diameter : 46 mm Styles : Atypical High Horology Types : Hand-winding Calibre distinction : Côtes de Genève Complication : Small Seconds Power Reserve Indicator Retrograde Minute Case material : White Gold Case peculiarity : Sapphire caseback Traitement antireflet Shape : Round Water-resistance : 30 meters Dial color : Grey Display : Blue small seconds hand Blue rotating hour hands Blue retrograde five-minute hand Blue rotating 1/12th of an hour hands Indexes : 12 pairs of rotating hands Glass : Sapphire Antireflective coating Strap material : Alligator leather Strap color : Black Strap clasp : Folding buckle + More characteristics : Movement
607 components
80 jewels
2 barrels
24 rotating hands
Power reserve: 45 hours
Mainplate and upper bridges shot-peened and NAC-coated
Lower bridges shot-peened. adorned with circular Côtes de Genève and nickel-palladium coated
Functions:
Hour and 1/12th of an hour (5 minutes) displays via a rotating. double-hand system
Animation of the 12 hour hands at each change of hour
Animation of the minutes hands every five minutes
Retrograde five-minute display
Power reserve indicator
Small second
Case in polished 18K white gold
Dial
Retrograde minute
Power-reserve display with NAC-coated lower part. shot-peened and rhodium upper part
Small seconds with frosted sapphire crystal
Hand-sewn black alligator leather strap
Polished 18K white gold buckle
DESCRIPTION
- Opus 12, overturns time
The presentation of the Harry Winston’s Opus timepiece is always awaited with great impatience at Baselworld and this year’s Opus has what it takes to puzzle those passionate about high complications like never before.
Opus 12 defies the conventional rules of watchmaking giving birth to the most improbable mechanical concept. This exceptional timepiece deliberately overturns the perception of time by drawing its inspiration from the Copernican revolution according to wich the earth rotates around the sun anda round itself. Time no longer reads via a pair of hands positioned in the center of the dial, but by the peripheral drive of 12 pairs of hands going from the circumference to the center. The hands, pointed towards the interior draw attention to the center of time. A retrograde hand, synchronized with the main minutes hand, advances along a five-minute sector. At the end of its travel it flies back to its initial position while the long five-minutes hand pivots and sets itself still.
In most watches the evolution of time is imperceptible. Opus 12, on the other hand, goes into action in a remarkable way, its hands changing the guard every five minutes. At each change of the hour, the movement executes a very elaborate drill exercise by the successive rotation of the hands. Below the retrogradde indication, a floating small seconds hand graduated on a translucent ring passes above a power-reserve indicator.
The winding of the movement departs from convention. The crown must be turned in the counterclockwise direction to simultaneously wind up the two barrels, one provinding energy to the movement and the other, to the animation. In order for the crown to be accessible, it as been placed in the center of the caseband, requiring a transmission wheel that reverses the winding direction.
Opus 12 also breaks the rules in terms of decoration and finish, deliberately abandoning the chamfering used in traditional watchmaking. Shot-peening hardens the surfaces and brings a resolutely contemporary aesthetic. The « Côtes de Genève », visible through the sapphire-crystal caseback, are for thier part interpreted in a spectacular manner. The styling remains faithful to the heritage of the House of Harry Winston. The emblematic arches recall the neoclassical vault wich dominates the famous facade of the Harry Winston Salon in New York and the openworked hands, the Manhattan skyscrapers. Another feature of this Opus 12 is the absence of a traditional dial, wich channels attention towards the indications and the animation and confers a mysterious character to this exeptional piece.
The Opus12, wich reinterprets time, is a real innovation in watchmaking. Nothing like this has been done before. The idea has sprung from the mind of its creator, Emmanuel Bouchet, who developed this remarkable work in close cooperation with the designer, Augustin Nussbaum, and the House of Harry Winston.
Opus, an astonishing mechanism
Each of the 12 stations around the dial carries a long hand to indicate the five-minute intervals and a short hand to indicate the hours. The former rotates about its axis and the latter orbits the former to appear above it or hide beneath it. Each hand is attached to a driving wheel and each displays a blue face whan it indicates the time and a neutral face when it is not in motion. The hands are activated thanks to two crown wheels turning around the dial. Both of them have toothed sections that engage the driving wheels of the hands at each station.
The outer crown wheel, wich activates the minutes hands, goes around the dial in one hour, advancing at five-minute inervals from one station to the next. A first toothed section engages the wheel of the next station and the five-minute hand turns over to its indicating side. In parallel, a second toothed section leaves the previous station and the minutes hand turns over to its neutral side.
At the change of the hour, one witnesses a real spectacle. The inner crown wheel, wich has not moved for 60 minutes, suddenly takes off around the dia land its toothed section drives the rotation of the hours hands in rapid succession. As the crown wheel goes around, the hours hand orbits 360° around the minutes hand station after station, an dits blue colour appears on the surface in a flash before disappearing again. The kinematics lasts for a few seconds until, after passing by the 12 stations, the toothed section drives the indication of the next hour and stabilizes itself. The speed of rotation is controlled by an escapement, wich needs far less energy than a flywheel governor and wich provides a captivating sound effect. In fact one of the challenges of this Opus 12 has been to optimize the energy necessary for the precision of the movement and for the animation.
The movement and the animation are fed by independent barrels. The barrel for the animation functions with the help of a differential that transmits the energy necessary for the travel of the crown wheels at the intervals governed by the movement. Both barrels are wound simultaneously, and the springs take the same time - 45 hours - to unwind.The movement stops when the energy required for the animation is not sufficient enough. Each barrel has a sleeping spring to prevent any breakage at the end of winding. The power-reserve of both barrels is shown along an arc of a circle in the center of the watch.
A balance-wheel, oscillating at 18,000 V/h, allows the small seconds hand to advance in jumps of one fifth of a second. An incredible module accomodates the 27 hands and thier associated gear trains. The outer crown wheel, wich governs the 12 five-minute hands, forms a wall rotating around this module. The watchmakers therfore had to construct an outside transmission system to connect the winding stem, positioned at the base of the timepiece, to the crown, wich had to accessible halfway up the caseband. The transmission wheel reverses the direction of winding. The setting can only be made by advancing the time.
The principal indications are thus the hou rand twelfths of an hour. The five minutes that go by between each animation at successive stations are indicated by a retrograde hand in the center of the timepiece.
- Opus 12, overturns time
The presentation of the Harry Winston’s Opus timepiece is always awaited with great impatience at Baselworld and this year’s Opus has what it takes to puzzle those passionate about high complications like never before.
Opus 12 defies the conventional rules of watchmaking giving birth to the most improbable mechanical concept. This exceptional timepiece deliberately overturns the perception of time by drawing its inspiration from the Copernican revolution according to wich the earth rotates around the sun anda round itself. Time no longer reads via a pair of hands positioned in the center of the dial, but by the peripheral drive of 12 pairs of hands going from the circumference to the center. The hands, pointed towards the interior draw attention to the center of time. A retrograde hand, synchronized with the main minutes hand, advances along a five-minute sector. At the end of its travel it flies back to its initial position while the long five-minutes hand pivots and sets itself still.
In most watches the evolution of time is imperceptible. Opus 12, on the other hand, goes into action in a remarkable way, its hands changing the guard every five minutes. At each change of the hour, the movement executes a very elaborate drill exercise by the successive rotation of the hands. Below the retrogradde indication, a floating small seconds hand graduated on a translucent ring passes above a power-reserve indicator.
The winding of the movement departs from convention. The crown must be turned in the counterclockwise direction to simultaneously wind up the two barrels, one provinding energy to the movement and the other, to the animation. In order for the crown to be accessible, it as been placed in the center of the caseband, requiring a transmission wheel that reverses the winding direction.
Opus 12 also breaks the rules in terms of decoration and finish, deliberately abandoning the chamfering used in traditional watchmaking. Shot-peening hardens the surfaces and brings a resolutely contemporary aesthetic. The « Côtes de Genève », visible through the sapphire-crystal caseback, are for thier part interpreted in a spectacular manner. The styling remains faithful to the heritage of the House of Harry Winston. The emblematic arches recall the neoclassical vault wich dominates the famous facade of the Harry Winston Salon in New York and the openworked hands, the Manhattan skyscrapers. Another feature of this Opus 12 is the absence of a traditional dial, wich channels attention towards the indications and the animation and confers a mysterious character to this exeptional piece.
The Opus12, wich reinterprets time, is a real innovation in watchmaking. Nothing like this has been done before. The idea has sprung from the mind of its creator, Emmanuel Bouchet, who developed this remarkable work in close cooperation with the designer, Augustin Nussbaum, and the House of Harry Winston.
Opus, an astonishing mechanism
Each of the 12 stations around the dial carries a long hand to indicate the five-minute intervals and a short hand to indicate the hours. The former rotates about its axis and the latter orbits the former to appear above it or hide beneath it. Each hand is attached to a driving wheel and each displays a blue face whan it indicates the time and a neutral face when it is not in motion. The hands are activated thanks to two crown wheels turning around the dial. Both of them have toothed sections that engage the driving wheels of the hands at each station.
The outer crown wheel, wich activates the minutes hands, goes around the dial in one hour, advancing at five-minute inervals from one station to the next. A first toothed section engages the wheel of the next station and the five-minute hand turns over to its indicating side. In parallel, a second toothed section leaves the previous station and the minutes hand turns over to its neutral side.
At the change of the hour, one witnesses a real spectacle. The inner crown wheel, wich has not moved for 60 minutes, suddenly takes off around the dia land its toothed section drives the rotation of the hours hands in rapid succession. As the crown wheel goes around, the hours hand orbits 360° around the minutes hand station after station, an dits blue colour appears on the surface in a flash before disappearing again. The kinematics lasts for a few seconds until, after passing by the 12 stations, the toothed section drives the indication of the next hour and stabilizes itself. The speed of rotation is controlled by an escapement, wich needs far less energy than a flywheel governor and wich provides a captivating sound effect. In fact one of the challenges of this Opus 12 has been to optimize the energy necessary for the precision of the movement and for the animation.
The movement and the animation are fed by independent barrels. The barrel for the animation functions with the help of a differential that transmits the energy necessary for the travel of the crown wheels at the intervals governed by the movement. Both barrels are wound simultaneously, and the springs take the same time - 45 hours - to unwind.The movement stops when the energy required for the animation is not sufficient enough. Each barrel has a sleeping spring to prevent any breakage at the end of winding. The power-reserve of both barrels is shown along an arc of a circle in the center of the watch.
A balance-wheel, oscillating at 18,000 V/h, allows the small seconds hand to advance in jumps of one fifth of a second. An incredible module accomodates the 27 hands and thier associated gear trains. The outer crown wheel, wich governs the 12 five-minute hands, forms a wall rotating around this module. The watchmakers therfore had to construct an outside transmission system to connect the winding stem, positioned at the base of the timepiece, to the crown, wich had to accessible halfway up the caseband. The transmission wheel reverses the direction of winding. The setting can only be made by advancing the time.
The principal indications are thus the hou rand twelfths of an hour. The five minutes that go by between each animation at successive stations are indicated by a retrograde hand in the center of the timepiece.
-
Brand : Harry Winston Collection : Harry Winston Opus Model : Opus 12 Reference : 500/MMEB46WL.K Complement : White Gold - Alligator Bracelet On sale : 2012 List Price : 240 600 € Diameter : 46 mm Styles : Atypical High Horology Types : Hand-winding Calibre distinction : Côtes de Genève Complication : Small Seconds Power Reserve Indicator Retrograde Minute Case material : White Gold Case peculiarity : Sapphire caseback Traitement antireflet Shape : Round Water-resistance : 30 meters Dial color : Grey Display : Blue small seconds hand Blue rotating hour hands Blue retrograde five-minute hand Blue rotating 1/12th of an hour hands Indexes : 12 pairs of rotating hands Glass : Sapphire Antireflective coating Strap material : Alligator leather Strap color : Black Strap clasp : Folding buckle More characteristics : Movement
607 components
80 jewels
2 barrels
24 rotating hands
Power reserve: 45 hours
Mainplate and upper bridges shot-peened and NAC-coated
Lower bridges shot-peened. adorned with circular Côtes de Genève and nickel-palladium coated
Functions:
Hour and 1/12th of an hour (5 minutes) displays via a rotating. double-hand system
Animation of the 12 hour hands at each change of hour
Animation of the minutes hands every five minutes
Retrograde five-minute display
Power reserve indicator
Small second
Case in polished 18K white gold
Dial
Retrograde minute
Power-reserve display with NAC-coated lower part. shot-peened and rhodium upper part
Small seconds with frosted sapphire crystal
Hand-sewn black alligator leather strap
Polished 18K white gold buckle