Harry Winston

Dear PuristS, I invite those who like the Opus 8 to post their opinions and reasons in this sub-thread. By the Law of Statisitics, there must be at least one member in this sample. This would be a rough measure or straw poll. Regards, MTF

infact, I quite like the concept of the watch. It kinda reintroduce the history of watch revolution in the 70s to the younger watch collectors now. It is not progressive in a physical way but truly it has the spirit of a progressive concept. Remaking a qu... 

. . . both here and elsewhere as for reasons which I understand intellectually but which don't resonate for me emotionally so many seem to be initially horrified at Opus 8! I'm not sure what about it has drawn so much fire. A slide operated mechano-digita... 

Jack my Friend, HWRT is a victim of its own successful past. If any other non-great Name had brought this out, it would probably be opinion-neutral i.e. equal % of protractors and detractors. There may even have been some polite applause for the fancy mec... 

. . . but (didn't you know a 'but' was coming) your critiques seem to be a criticism of PR lapses, not criticisms of the watch itself. . . and this is not to say, by the way, that at that price point (or for that matter any luxury price point- if I am spe... 

It's NOT about Public Relations but more about Relationship with your buying Public and your own product.....on a personal level. At that price-point, you really, really want to be close to both. On American Idol ® , contestants get voted off, not solely ... 

. . . well, more specifically, I'm not sure that I'm willing to dismiss the watch's technical and design merits to a significant extent on the basis of a perceived lack of emotional comittment on the part of its designer and on the part of HWRT- for one t... 

My understanding is that Opus 8 is still a mechanical watch mimicing digital. That's pretty crazy stuff. Look at Opus 3. It is one of the ugliest watches I have ever seen, but everyone was going gaga (is it the right spelling?) over it. I don't see why we... 

Sir, You did not like th look and asked a double-negative question in the title. But inside the posting, you also said you would not mind a watch like this .....if you could afford it. So, is this a positive vote for the watch IF it were cheaper and not O... 

and the concept of its instantaneous 7 whip type design that is more difficult than a Grande Sonnorie or similar to one in execution. Secondary to that...is that it used a 19th century numeric display from Cartier. Note that it is REALLY taking all the ki... 

"There are almost 100 of these "designs" with poor mechanical movts, but no hand operated display of rubies, but rotating discs...going for $30 a pop." Hi Dr. Cheong. . . yes, but that is precisely the point, the thing is done very differently. Putting a ... 

I see the Opus 8 as a failure of HWRT's exec staff, to demonstrate an understanding of their creations and history. Having a GOOD COMPLEX movt is a part and sometimes only a small part, of the product. YES. To watch conneussers like us...a movt is a BIG t... 

to me it is a gorgeous car i am very much into aesthetics and the watch has to attract me first in the looks department before I am even remotely interested in finding out about its mechanics and its philosophy and all the other frilly stuff. if it ain't ...  

You undertstand whetre I come from. The Toyota...that is THE car for a GOOD example ..Yes?

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if and only if this watch is a failure, there is only one man on earth will make it a success - Mr. Patrizzi. To me, I will buy if HW give me 90% discount on the list price. Regards Ling

Ling, Have you valued this Opus 8 at $35k? Is that how much it looks like it's worth to you? This is important because it values the design and novelty movement at 10% of the asking price. All the dealers who have to take on inventory are interested in ta... 

This watch is just like a newly born baby. It still has long way to go. You will never know whether it will one day become a doctor or lawyer or engineer or securities dealer or CEO of a PLC or PuristS'forum moderator or fisherman or farmer or conman or c... 

my apologies if i' dumbing this down but it seems op8 could be the watch world's campbell soup ala warhol.

If Warhol had done his work TODAY..I won't buy one..not because he won't be the forst..but because between 1965 and 2001...several men would have thrown up work that would have created a rift similar to his..and in watch making...they HAVE ALREADY DONE IT... 

. . . another mechanical watch that uses this type of mechanical implementation of the time display and which quotes formally vintage LCD/LED cases. Your argument simply doesn't cohere- there have been literally dozens of artists since Warhol whose strate... 

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Thank You very much, particulary Mr. CHEONG i love generate this debate since the coming of OPUS 8 people love and adore and some others hate and throw back ! In fact the criticism is easy for viewers, but it's more difficult for us, watchmakers, engineer...