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US$80,000-120,000
With Harry Winston Certifcate dated May 2010, product literature, fitted presentation box and outer packaging.
Eric Giroud was born in La Chaux de Fonds, Switzerland. Very early on, he developed a passion for music and art. Till the age of twenty, Eric Giroud studied music and imagined a career dedicated to music until he decided to turn to the study of architecture. After working for various architecture firms, he opened his own practice in 1992. At the age of thirty, he decided to close his studio to travel and ended up living in Dakar, Senegal for a year and a half. Giroud returned to Switzerland in 1995 where he embarked on a career in graphics, packaging and product design for Swiss design companies. Designing products became Giroud's main focus as he infused his objects with his artistic sensibilities. Together with Jean-Marc Wiederrecht, he created the Harry Winston Opus 9 which was awarded the prize for "Best Design Watch of the Year" by the Jury of the Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Geneve in 2009. Giroud is also an integral member of the design team of Maximilian Busser and his cult brand MB&F.
Jean-Marc Wiederrecht grew up in Vernier in the canton of Geneva. After visiting a watchmaker's workshop at the age of 17, he decided to pursue the profession of watchmaking and attended the Geneva Watchmkaing school for four years, graduating with top honours in 1972. While working with Roger Chatelain in Geneva, Wiederrecht was exposed to many types of watches and acquired a wide range of watchmaking skills including case manufacturing. In particular, he worked on many thin movements and skeletonized watches.
Opus 9 is unique in many ways. It marked the first time that Harry Winston has partnered with two independent innovative forces in haute horlogerie. Both long-time designers for Harry Winston, watchmaker Jean-Marc Wiederrecht, and designer, Eric Giroud, have contributed to some of Harry Winton's most remarkable timepieces. Opus 9 is also the first timepiece of the Opus series to use diamonds, not merely as a decorative element, but as the main purpose of telling time. "We set out to create pure linear time," Jean-Marc Wiederrecht explained. "We very quickly ruled out complications and chose to work on an existing movement. The challenge was to incorporate and highlight the diamonds as functional elements of the watch."
Instead of a traditional watch hand and cyclical dial, time is reduced to its most fundamental expression to show the hours and minutes by two parallel chains of 33 baguette-cut diamonds, punctuated with three mandarin garnets to indicate the exact time. The main technical challenge came from the added weight of the diamonds when engineering these chains. Each diamond and garnet had to be cut to watchmaking precision to fit in the links, in fact, 50 of the diamonds Wiederrecht received from Harry Winton had to be sent back.
The white gold case designed by Eric Giroud is at once stark and sculptural. Its minimalist design was to emphasize the functional beauty and the brilliance of the diamonds while supporting the movement which was totally concealed in the case. The idea for the Opus 9 came to Giroud while he was on vacation by the sea. His starting point was purity as he wanted to incorporate light and transparency into the case, inspired by the way the sunlight hit the water. Opus 9 was produced in a limited edition of 100 pieces.
With Harry Winston Certifcate dated May 2010, product literature, fitted presentation box and outer packaging.
Eric Giroud was born in La Chaux de Fonds, Switzerland. Very early on, he developed a passion for music and art. Till the age of twenty, Eric Giroud studied music and imagined a career dedicated to music until he decided to turn to the study of architecture. After working for various architecture firms, he opened his own practice in 1992. At the age of thirty, he decided to close his studio to travel and ended up living in Dakar, Senegal for a year and a half. Giroud returned to Switzerland in 1995 where he embarked on a career in graphics, packaging and product design for Swiss design companies. Designing products became Giroud's main focus as he infused his objects with his artistic sensibilities. Together with Jean-Marc Wiederrecht, he created the Harry Winston Opus 9 which was awarded the prize for "Best Design Watch of the Year" by the Jury of the Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Geneve in 2009. Giroud is also an integral member of the design team of Maximilian Busser and his cult brand MB&F.
Jean-Marc Wiederrecht grew up in Vernier in the canton of Geneva. After visiting a watchmaker's workshop at the age of 17, he decided to pursue the profession of watchmaking and attended the Geneva Watchmkaing school for four years, graduating with top honours in 1972. While working with Roger Chatelain in Geneva, Wiederrecht was exposed to many types of watches and acquired a wide range of watchmaking skills including case manufacturing. In particular, he worked on many thin movements and skeletonized watches.
Opus 9 is unique in many ways. It marked the first time that Harry Winston has partnered with two independent innovative forces in haute horlogerie. Both long-time designers for Harry Winston, watchmaker Jean-Marc Wiederrecht, and designer, Eric Giroud, have contributed to some of Harry Winton's most remarkable timepieces. Opus 9 is also the first timepiece of the Opus series to use diamonds, not merely as a decorative element, but as the main purpose of telling time. "We set out to create pure linear time," Jean-Marc Wiederrecht explained. "We very quickly ruled out complications and chose to work on an existing movement. The challenge was to incorporate and highlight the diamonds as functional elements of the watch."
Instead of a traditional watch hand and cyclical dial, time is reduced to its most fundamental expression to show the hours and minutes by two parallel chains of 33 baguette-cut diamonds, punctuated with three mandarin garnets to indicate the exact time. The main technical challenge came from the added weight of the diamonds when engineering these chains. Each diamond and garnet had to be cut to watchmaking precision to fit in the links, in fact, 50 of the diamonds Wiederrecht received from Harry Winton had to be sent back.
The white gold case designed by Eric Giroud is at once stark and sculptural. Its minimalist design was to emphasize the functional beauty and the brilliance of the diamonds while supporting the movement which was totally concealed in the case. The idea for the Opus 9 came to Giroud while he was on vacation by the sea. His starting point was purity as he wanted to incorporate light and transparency into the case, inspired by the way the sunlight hit the water. Opus 9 was produced in a limited edition of 100 pieces.