Looks like people start to enjoy mechanical watches once again. Retro style, baby, yeah! Here’s a watch that displays the hour with the aid of a cool 3D effect.
Designed by Harry Winston, the Opus 8 is using a complicated system of mechanical pixels that rise up from the display when the user activates a mechanism on the side of the case. It also utilizes hand-wound mechanical movements to integrate a modern, digital time display. The 3D display works on the principle of pin art games, which create 3D impressions of objects pressed against them. Similarly, in Opus 8’s case the numbers in the display will only appear “upon request,” activated by a bolt on the right hand side of the case. No #d impression is created until the mechanism is wound.
