Insane Luxury – $349,995 Harry Winston Opus V Platinum “Satellite Hour” Display (it’s a watch, btw).

The watch is also the first to have a service indicator that tells the wearer when it needs maintenance (every 5 Years)

The watch also has an elegant power reserve indicator and day/night indicator and gull-wing styled crown protector.It is readily clear then that the Opus V did not come from spontaneous generation, but is the result of long hours of reflection on time, its functions, and its display.

By replacing the satellites by cubes, F‚lix Baumgartner and Martin Frei succeeded in giving a true spatial dimension to their watch. From four satellites, they went to three cubes whose four faces carry the different hour numbers. But the basic principle, involving the Maltese cross and ball bearings, posed new challenges.

For example, not only do the cubes revolve in an orbital fashion, but they also rotate on themselves, revealing thus a new hour number. In addition, when the cube arrives at zero on the minute scale, it drags the large minute hand along the scale (before, the satellite, itself, indicated the hours by its own trajectory). One of the most difficult problems was to make the minute hand return instantaneously once it reached 60 so that it could accompany the new cube, thus the new hour. The solution is a spring, a spring that is very delicate to make (a wire with a thickness of 0.05 mm), which provides minimal but constant force.One of the most remarkable aspects of this entire process is that Urwerk produces its watches completely in-house, in collaboration with a case manufacturer that provides its five-axis CNC machines for use by the brand, thus giving almost total autonomy. "We are of the new generation," insists Baumgartner, "and we work with all of today’s existing possibilities. We are anchored in traditional timekeeping, of course, but also in modernity.