The OpusX Society, WOLF 1834 Collaborate on Watch Winder Humidor

If you’d like to store your watches and your cigars in a single piece of furniture, Manny Iriarte Enterprises has a new humidor you might be interested.

Iriarte’s The OpusX Society has teamed up with WOLF 1834—a British-Swedish accessory company which holds patents for watch winders—for a humidor and watch winder collaboration.

Predictably, it’s called The Humi-Winder. The top third or so of the box features a humidor that is designed to hold around 50 cigars. Underneath that is a drawer for cigar accessories, followed by the watch winder unit, which can wind three watches at a time. There’s also another bottom drawer. When closed, the unit measures 19.68 inches wide by 11.02 inches deep and 19.68 inches tall. With the humidor’s lid extended, the height can reach just under 30 inches and the watch winder slides out to a depth of 22.59 inches.

Many of the details—including pricing—have not been disclosed. Manny Iriarte Enterprises says there will be 50 numbered units produced, 25 each of the two colorways: yellow/blue and black/red. A variety of materials are used, including Spanish cedar, Italian leather, birdseye maple and dyed ash.

Watch winders are used to store automatic watches to keep them running accurately. Automatic watches—not to be confused with battery-powered watches—are powered using kinetic energy, provided either by manually winding the watch or by movement of the watch, which winds a mainspring. Automatic watches can store enough power to be run for a couple of days to sometimes longer than a week—or even a month—without any winding or movement. Watch winders allow a watch’s owner to store the watches while continuing to provide movement, helping to keep the watches running well.

WOLF 1834 says that it produces the only watch winder that can be set to a precise number of rotations, ranging between 300-1,200 turns per day. The winders are electric, powered either via an a/c adaptor or battery.

Manny Iriarte Enterprises will show off The Humi-Winder at this week’s 2023 PCA Convention & Trade Show in Las Vegas. The company says it will begin shipping orders in 30-90 days.

Iriarte is a designer who has worked extensively with Arturo Fuente during the last decade, including on the company’s collaborations with Hublot. He is also credited with designing the OpusX 20th Anniversary Celebration packaging and a line of S.T. Dupont accessories that launched alongside the release. Two years ago, he launched The OpusX Society, which produces its accessories as well as special Fuente-themed version of Elie Bleu accessories.