Take a look at the pictures provided by Harry Winston and you will quickly realize that, if nothing else, this watch makes for a wonderful conversation piece.

How exactly did creator and technomancer Frederic Garinaud achieve this particular rendition of the digital display of time?

To put it simply, it involves a feat of micro engineering above and beyond the art of watchmaking.

The watch provides hours and minutes, with day/night indicators, on both the front and back, but both minute displays are limited to showing time to the nearest five-minute mark.

Unless activated by the all-or-nothing minute repeater-like slider, the time remains hidden from view.

Limited to 50 pieces, the 45mm by 34mm watch is available exclusively in white gold and is styled after the digital watches of the 1970s that very nearly put the mechanical watch in its grave.

That the look and feel of such a watch should return in a momentous salute to mechanical chronometry is an irony.

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via Watch Tribune