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Hermes Cape Cod Tonneau Snow Setting

Published by in Hermès on July 3rd, 2011 | No Comments »

If you simply can’t get enough diamonds, then how about 1242 of them on one watch?

Taking 160 hours to put together, this Hermes Cape Cod has 449 diamonds for the dial, 750 for the case, 42 for the buckle and a cabochon for the crown, totalling 8.33 carats.

Available in a limited run of 24 pieces.

Technical Specifications

Functions: Hours, minutes
Movement: Quartz. ETA Calibre 255.441

Dial
750 (18 ct) white gold dial (8.6 grams)
Snow setting composed of 449 diamonds ranging from 0.7 to 1.9 mm in diameter and totalling 2.79 carats
“Full-cut” diamonds of Top Wesselton EF-VVS “Rare white +” quality

Case
750 (18ct) white gold (54 grams)
Snow setting composed of 750 diamonds ranging from 0.7 to 2.3 mm in diameter and totalling 5.27 carats
“Full-cut” diamonds of Top Wesselton EF-VVS “Rare white+” quality
Crown: a 2.9 mm-diameter, 0.07carat cabochon
Size: Tonneau, 30 x 33 mm
Watertight to 30 metres
Glass: Anti-glare sapphire crystal

Strap
Matt indigo blue alligator
Tongue buckle in 750 (18ct) white gold (5.15 grams)
Snow setting composed of 42 diamonds ranging from 1 to 1.1 mm in diameter and totalling 0.2 carats
“Full-cut” diamonds of Top Wesselton EF-VVS “Rare white +” quality

Edition: Limited numbered edition of 24

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Hermes Heure H Tres Grand

Published by in Hermès on April 29th, 2011 | No Comments »

Standing proud, this is the Hermes Heure H ‘Tres Grand’!

The case is stainless steel and measures 32mm x 32mm.

The crystal is an AR-coted sapphire and it is water resistant to 30 meters.

Movement is a Swiss made automatic Vaucher caliber.

The strap is Hermes Barenia leather with safety deployant.

Oooh, tres classy!

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Hermès Cape Cod Grandes Heures

Published by in Hermès on March 24th, 2011 | No Comments »

[Press Release] The Hermès Cape Cod Grandes Heurs, is an invitation to lengthen your most precious moments and to shorten the most mundane ones. This is reflected by the movement of the hands that accelerate at times or take a more leisurely pace at others.

Everything, from the rectangular case to the finely engine-turned dial with its stylized hourmarkers, is designed to break the monotony of a conventional watch face. While the minutes and seconds on this unusual watch count off the 60 markers at a traditional pace, the hours are quite happy to follow their own schedule. An elegant expression of the passing hours that breaks with all conventional practices and offers a new way of measuring tim

Technical Specifications

Cape Cod Grandes Heurs

Movement: Automatic, Grandes Heures module, 133 components, 42-hour power reserve
Functions: Hours (variable speeds), minutes and seconds
Case: 316 L stainless steel, 36.5 x 35.4 mm Water-resistant to 50 m / 5 ATM
Dial: Silvered or anthracite 3 hour displays available
Strap: Matte Havana brown or graphite

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Hermès Arceau Time Suspended (Triple Retrograde)

Published by in Hermès on March 24th, 2011 | No Comments »

And still they come :-)

[Press Release] The Hermès Arceau Arceau Time Suspended (Le Temps Suspendu) suspends time without disturbing either its onward march or its precision.

With this world first complication, its owner can forget the present time thanks to an ingenious system of cams, pinions and segments.

This illusion is made possible by an additional module developed in cooperation with Agenhor, Geneva, and its founder Jean-Marc Wiederrecht, a grand specialist of retrograde time indications.

This unconventional complication enables the watch to alternate automatically between real and suspended time, coordinated by two synchronised column wheels, one for the hours, the other for the minutes and date.

Simply pressing the pusher at 9 o’clock brings the hour and minute hands to a halt at noon, while entirely concealing the date hand.

Time is thus suspended – or rather its display, since the mechanism itself continues keeping track of standard time, like an orchestra playing backstage while the protagonists of a play remain motionless.

Two minutes, three hours, five days or several weeks later, whenever you so wish, another press on the pusher repositions the three hands in their rightful place and time, no longer suspended, resumes its steady sweep around the dial.

This concept involves a triple retrograde system including two 360° functions (for the hour and minute hands), and represents an impressive world first duly protected by two patents.

 

Technical Specifications

Arceau Time Suspended (Arceau Temps Suspendu)

Edition
Limited numbered edition of 174 in rose gold

Functions
Hours, minutes, date with retrograde functions

Movement
Mechanical self-winding
“Time suspended” module
34 mm in diameter (15 lignes)
6.15 thick
28,800 vibrations per hour (4Hz)
42-hour power reserve
254 parts including 45 jewels
Circular-grained and snailed bridges
Oscillating weight adorned with Côtes de Genève motif

Specific features
World’s first triple retrograde
360° retrograde hour and minute hand
Retrograde date hand
Function for starting and stopping the hands (suspending time) by pressing a pushbutton

Dial
Opaline silvered dial with herringbone motif (for rose gold or steel model)
Black dial with herringbone motif (for steel model)
“Time suspended” zone at 12 o’clock

Case
750 (18ct) rose gold (79 grams)
316L steel
43 mm in diameter
Water-resistant to 30 metres

Crystal
Anti-glare sapphire crystal

Strap
Matte Havana or black alligator
Folding safety clasp in rose gold or in steel

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Hermès Arceau Pocket Promenade de Longchamp

Published by in Hermès on March 5th, 2011 | No Comments »

Much like mantel clocks, you don’t see so much around new pocket watches nowadays.

Hermès are doing their bit to address that with the Arceau Pocket Promenade de Longchamp – inspired by a wristwatch vision from way back in 1978.

Here’s a bit more from the company themselves:

“The case-back of this unique piece features a motif sculpted from a block of natural mother-of-pearl depicts an equestrian scene using the relief modelling technique: the carriage, horses and protagonists are themselves engraved on two superimposed gold plates. The perspective lines, the various planes and the depth of field, underscored by the third dimension of the creation, instil a distinct sense of life and movement. This motif evokes the central detail of the Promenade de Longchamp silk carré designed by Philippe Ledoux in 1965.

The white gold 43.2 mm case and shimmering grey-blue mother-of-pearl dial radiate a sense of diaphanous harmony that makes a striking contrast with the cord-strap and pouch in matt havana alligator leather.

The mechanical self-winding movement is an exclusive Hermès calibre: H 1928 (the year the company introduced its first watches). Its twin barrel ensures a 55-hour power reserve.”

Technical Specifications

- Mechanical self-winding
- Hermès Calibre H1928
- 25.6 mm in diameter (11½ lignes)
- 3.5 mm thick
- 28,800 vibrations per hour (4Hz)
- 55-hour power reserve thanks to a series-coupled twin barrel
- 220 parts including 32 jewels
- Hand-chamfered and polished bridges and mechanisms
- Exclusive Hermès decorated motif (sprinkling of “H”s)
- Oscillating weight in 916 (22ct) gold
- Functions: Hours, minutes

Case
- 750 (18ct) white gold (87.5 grams)
- 43.2 mm in diameter
- Watertight to 30 metres

Glass: Anti-glare sapphire crystal on both bezel and back
Dial: Natural grey-blue mother-of-pearl, carriage and horseman in handengraved gold depicting a detail of the “Promenade de Longchamp” Hermès silk carré by Philippe Ledoux
Strap: Matt havana brown alligator cord-strap

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Hermès Arceau Grande Lune

Published by in Hermès on February 10th, 2011 | No Comments »

[Press Release] Designed in 1978 by Henri d’Origny, the Arceau watch is the one of the emblematic models in the brand’s watch collections – and one that is particularly representative of the inimitable style of Hermès, saddle-maker in Paris since 1837.

This year, the brand enriches this collection with a new version.

Echoing the case of the 43 mm chronograph model, the Arceau Grande Lune watch is a complete calendar watch featuring day and month apertures. Its dial is stamped with a herringbone motif identical to that found on saddle rugs.

The stamped and rhodiumed numerals maintain the classic appearance of the original model, with a sloping design that follows the movement of the hands and seems to keep ahead of time.

The broad opening at 6 o’clock highlights the moon disc and its rhodiumed stars specifically designed by Hermès in a deep blue shade. The calendar display indexed around the moon disc is surrounded by a rhodiumed flange, while the snailed motif radiating from the centre of the counter creates a refined sunburst effect. The moonphase module created by Dubois-Dépraz is fitted to a self-winding movement that may be admired through the transparent case-back revealing its circular-grained and snailed finishing adorned with Côtes de Genève.

Technical Specifications

Model: Hermès Arceau Grande Lune

Movement
- Mechanical self-winding movement
- Dubois-Dépraz 9313 Large Moon module

Decoration
- Circular-grained and snailed bridges
- Oscillating weight adorned with “Côtes de Genève” motif

Functions
- Hour, minute, centre-second
- Hand indicating the date at 6 o’clock
- Days display at 11 o’clock
- Months display at 1 o’clock
- Large moon display at 6 o’clock

Case
- Steel, 43 mm diameter
- Glass Glare proof sapphire

Dial
- Opaline silvered with stamped herringbone motif and rhodiumplated hour-markers
- Galvanic black with stamped herringbone motif and rhodiumplated hour-markers

Strap

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