Rooted in the Pop Art moment from the 1970’, Digital Art and Technology have totally changed our life-style and then influence contemporary art and culture. Permitting artists to produce works of maximum complexity, the advances in technology also have changed the skill of modern the Harry Winston watch industry. Equipped with the avant-garde and innovative spirit that defined this decade, Opus 8, developed together with Frédéric Garinaud, brings together the skill of digital emotion and signifies a continuation of the technological and artistic evolution.
An exceptional and advanced timepiece, Opus 8 utilizes hand-wound mechanical movements to create a modern, digital time display. Inspired by pin art games, which create 3D impressions of objects pressed against them, the numbers in the display will only appear “upon request,” activated by a bolt on the right hand side of the case. Nothing appears until the mechanism is wound.
The case of Opus 8, clearly inspired by the 1970s, contains a hand-wound mechanical movement with a modern, digital display of the hours and minutes visually at least; the reality is much more complicated. The novel numbers appear only on demand, when a slide on the right side of the timepiece is activated. Inspired by the pin-art board that reproduces any shape pressed onto it, one’s hand, face, etc., the mechanism links all of the functions together: the minute drives the hour, which in turn drives the AM/PM, so that everything can be displayed on demand.
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