Yes, I loved every of the OPUS up to the 7. Of course, some more than others, but I allways appreciateted their originality as well as technical nature.
This one surely has the originality, but they might have gone slightly too far in taking some rough early-80's calculator aesthetics. It doesn't look classy to me when, I beleive, all the 7 others have succeed to mix it with highly original display.
Technically speaking, digital display is an old fantasy to me too. I dreamt of mechnically driven 7-segments for years and the main challenge is in actualizing them. dGrisogonno is proposing a solution, that we're not sure about reliability these days, but at least, there is a lead, something that is doing it, would it be for couple of hours, and despite chronometric performances. Years of R&D new materials and new means of machining could make it possible. In the Opus 8, they are not actualized, but even more, the user has to bring the energy to read. To me, this is a huge shortcut to the digital display and its technical interest. A big trick that doesn't make it, in my humble opinion.
So, to me, exit Opus 8... well, if I can say so...
Christian.