A world away from its various watchmaking sagas – Histoire de Tourbillon (new model announced for Baselworld), Project Z (likewise) and Opus (to be unveiled after Baselworld) – Harry Winston offers a softer model amid the resolutely virile universe of its masculine range. The success of the Premier Feathers line that women were offered in 2012 convinced the creative team of the king of diamonds, now under the aegis of Nayla Hayek, to enrich the Midnight collection with a self-winding men’s model featuring with the ancestral art of feather craft. For the shimmering marquetry work embellishing the consequently unique dial of the Midnight Feathers Automatic is indeed composed of individually selected goose feathers of the kind that used to garnish hats. Like arrows sweeping across the savannah, the hands accentuate the graphic and vibrant effect of the gold-rimmed dial. Devotees of fine mechanical horology will be reassured by the sight of the more traditional open caseback revealing the white gold skeletonized rotor of the self-winding caliber, in this instance adorned with parabolic Côtes de Genève and equipped with a flat silicon balance-spring.
Midnight Feathers Automatic
Case : polished 18K pink gold, sapphire caseback, water-resistant to 30m Diameter : 42.5mm Movement : mechanical self-winding (Caliber HW2008, 42h power reserve), 186 parts, flat silicon balance-spring, parabolic Côtes de Genève, circular graining, beveled bridges Functions : Hours, minutes Dial : farmed-goose feathers Strap : brown alligator leather with polished 18K pink gold pin buckle
