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Lot Essay
US$320,000-500,000
With Harry Winston instruction manual, product literature, polishing cloth, gloves, DVD, fitted presentation box and outer packaging.
Greuebel Forsey is the brand created by the association of independent watchmakers Robert Greubel and Stephen Forsey. Together they launched a watchmaking company based in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland in 2004 which specializes in designing and manufacturing high-end wristwatches based on the Tourbillon mechanism.
Stephen Forsey was born in 1967 in St Albans, England, a city which once produced many marine chronometers. In 1987, Forsey inspired by his father's passion for mechanics and engineering, attended Hackney Technical College in London to study technical horology.
Robert Greubel and Stephen Forsey have now been working together for 20 years. Success has changed neither their relationship nor their vision which is "to build on their deep traditional knowledge gained with four decades of combined experience in high-end complicated timepieces, by inventing and developing technically valid horological complications to rigorous aesthetic principles."
Creating the Opus 6 in 2006 was not an easy task. First of all, it was the first Opus under the leadership of Hamdi Chatti and many spectators in the watch arena were skeptical about the Opus collection's existence without its creator Maximilian Busser who left Harry Winston in 2005 to launch his own brand MB&F. Finding an Opus with qualities to match all the previous models was also not an easy task having to fill the shoes of the likes of Francois-Paul Journe, Vianney Halter and Felix Baumgartner. The last obstacle was the extremely tight schedule that Hamdi Chatti was faced with, from the time he joined Harry Winston to the release of the Opus 6 at the 2006 Baselworld watch fair.
Opus 6 was therefore the fastest project to take shape. It only took six months in 2006 between the first contact of Hamdi Chatti with the English and French independent team of Robert Greubel and Stephen Forsey to come up with their highly innovative interpretation of the tourbillon. Poetically named the Emotion 30, the Opus 6 is a veritable horological ballet. The partnership between Harry Winston and Greubel Forsey is literally the most visible in this Opus 6 than in any other Opus. Apart from the now familiar Harry Winston arches around the crown and in the lugs, hidden in a visual "pun" on the bridge and hour and minutes sectors, one has to look carefully to detect two Arabic numerals of the figure "6", one vertical and one inverted, both alluding to the Opus 6, made in 2006, in an extremely limited edition of 6 in white gold.
With Harry Winston instruction manual, product literature, polishing cloth, gloves, DVD, fitted presentation box and outer packaging.
Greuebel Forsey is the brand created by the association of independent watchmakers Robert Greubel and Stephen Forsey. Together they launched a watchmaking company based in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland in 2004 which specializes in designing and manufacturing high-end wristwatches based on the Tourbillon mechanism.
Stephen Forsey was born in 1967 in St Albans, England, a city which once produced many marine chronometers. In 1987, Forsey inspired by his father's passion for mechanics and engineering, attended Hackney Technical College in London to study technical horology.
Robert Greubel and Stephen Forsey have now been working together for 20 years. Success has changed neither their relationship nor their vision which is "to build on their deep traditional knowledge gained with four decades of combined experience in high-end complicated timepieces, by inventing and developing technically valid horological complications to rigorous aesthetic principles."
Creating the Opus 6 in 2006 was not an easy task. First of all, it was the first Opus under the leadership of Hamdi Chatti and many spectators in the watch arena were skeptical about the Opus collection's existence without its creator Maximilian Busser who left Harry Winston in 2005 to launch his own brand MB&F. Finding an Opus with qualities to match all the previous models was also not an easy task having to fill the shoes of the likes of Francois-Paul Journe, Vianney Halter and Felix Baumgartner. The last obstacle was the extremely tight schedule that Hamdi Chatti was faced with, from the time he joined Harry Winston to the release of the Opus 6 at the 2006 Baselworld watch fair.
Opus 6 was therefore the fastest project to take shape. It only took six months in 2006 between the first contact of Hamdi Chatti with the English and French independent team of Robert Greubel and Stephen Forsey to come up with their highly innovative interpretation of the tourbillon. Poetically named the Emotion 30, the Opus 6 is a veritable horological ballet. The partnership between Harry Winston and Greubel Forsey is literally the most visible in this Opus 6 than in any other Opus. Apart from the now familiar Harry Winston arches around the crown and in the lugs, hidden in a visual "pun" on the bridge and hour and minutes sectors, one has to look carefully to detect two Arabic numerals of the figure "6", one vertical and one inverted, both alluding to the Opus 6, made in 2006, in an extremely limited edition of 6 in white gold.