Bridge by Harry Winston, Sapphire and diamond ring
Cushion-cut sapphire, 7.31 carats; 90 round brilliant and baguette diamonds, 1.37 total carats; platinum setting.
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Apr 6, 2011
Apr 5, 2011
BASEL 2011 HARRYWINSTON
Hodinkee wasn’t playing around this year at Basel 2011. The folks really dropped some epic coverage, including this piece on the Harry Winston Opus Eleven. The functionality of this timepiece is magnificent but how it came to be is no easy feat.
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.
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