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Harry Winston Opus Eleven. Em exclusivo para Portugal, as primeiras imagens do 11º relógio da série, iniciada há exactamente 11 anos. Calibre de carga manual, 24 pinhões cónicos, 155 rubis, 566 componentes. As Horas são indicadas por 24 placas, através de um sistema de regulação de velocidade de rotação. Os Minutos são digitais, através de dois discos - um disco saltante para as dezenas e um disco que roda para as unidades. Caixa em ouro branco, composta por três círculos sobrepostos, com um vidro de safira entre eles. O círculo principal é para as horas, um outro para os minutos e um terceiro para a roda de balanço. Série limitada a 111 unidades.

O Opus Eleven é da autoria de Denis Giguet. Antes de co-fundar a Manufacture Contemporaine du Temps - MCT, em 2008, Denis era Chefe de Produção na Harry Winston Watches, onde esteve envolvido na aclamada série Opus. Denis é engenheiro de formação.

Da marca:

Harry Winston’s Opus has become more than a collection of outstanding timepieces. This blend of watchmaking dreams come true tells a story of determination that has turned into a cultural phenomenon, recreated annually by talented people who know how to derive synergy from an equal commitment to art and technology. For the past 10 years, Harry Winston has called on the originality and skills of independent watchmakers to realize its concept of superior watchmaking. For Harry Winston, watches reflect a passionate belief that you can – and must – go beyond the imaginable. Today, the House of Harry Winston is proud to present its 11th Opus, a watch that shatters watchmaking notions to bring you the disintegration of time itself.

Brought to life in the hands of Denis Giguet, Opus Eleven makes news with a technology and architecture that have never been seen before. Ingenious mechanisms give the watch a rare character – an explosive temperament that makes a sport of time. In addition to its role as an instrument, Opus Eleven creates an engineering puzzle that resolves itself on the hour.

The curtain goes up. An extremely complex case stages the show. The three overlapping cylinders on three levels are configured to deconstruct time. The main circle is the hour’s domain, flanked by two pavilions. One shows the minutes on a jumping disk for the tens and a running disk for the units. The other, slightly lower, displays the regular beat of a big titanium balance-wheel.

Anarchy takes hold of the hours indication beneath the sapphire-crystal dome every 60 minutes. The numeral of the hour, assembled in the center of the circle, explodes into chaos before instantly reassembling as the new hour. It then remains still until the next disintegration.

Instead of a hand, 24 placards revolve and rotate on a complicated system of gears mounted on an epicycloidal gear-train.

Four satellites mounted on a rotating platform, each with three pairs of placards, provide a vertical transmission through a train of eight intermediate wheels, three elliptical gears, a triangular wheel and six conical pinions. The bevel gears are responsible for changing the axis of rotation of the placards and positioning them according to an elaborate drill maneuver. The triangular wheel and elliptic gears are calculated to vary the gear ratio to absorb shocks and prevent the placards colliding.