Showing posts with label Hermès. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hermès. Show all posts

Thursday, February 10, 2022

The Arceau Grand Lune

From Hermès -

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This one is a bit special, and at least by Hermès typical pricing standards, is within realistic standards - $6,175

Tuesday, September 11, 2018

The Robe du Soir

From Hermès-

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Hermès
Here are the pertinents -

Limited and numbered edition of 12

MOVEMENT
Manufacture Hermès H1837 movement Mechanical self-winding, Swiss made Diameter: 26 mm
Thickness: 3.7 mm

Power reserve: 50 hours
Number of jewels: 28
Frequency: 28,800 vibrations per hour / 4Hz 

Decoration: Mainplate with circular-grained and snailed finishing, bridges and oscillating weight satin-brushed and adorned with ‘sprinkling of Hs’, Hermès Paris engraving 
Functions: Hours, minutes

CASE
Shape / Size: Round, 41 mm diameter
Material: Rose gold
Glass: Sapphire crystal with anti-reflective treatment Water resistant: 3 bar


DIAL
Leather mosaic. Motif inspired by a Hermès silk scarf designed by Florence Manlik

BUCKLE
Rose gold pin buckle

STRAP
Electric blue Swift calf skin 


Sunday, March 4, 2018

A GMT Version

For the Slim d’Hermès collection -

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Hermès
Here are the pertinents -

TECHNICAL CHARACTERISTICS 

90-piece limited and numbered edition 

MOVEMENT
Mechanical self-winding movement, crafted in Switzerland Ultra-thin Hermès Manufacture movement H1950
30 mm in diameter, 2.6 mm thick
29 jewels

21’600 vibrations per hour (3 Hz)
Power reserve of 42 hours
Micro-rotor
Hand-chamfered bridges adorned with the special Hermès decoration (sprinkling of Hs)

MODULE
GMT module
33.6 mm in diameter, 1.4 mm thick 63 components, 9 jewels

FUNCTIONS
Hours, minutes, date, GMT, day/night indicators for home and local time
DIAL
Slate-toned dial, sunburst chapter ring, snailed date
counter and dial center, grained silvered GMT counter, white-transferred Arabic numerals.
Rhodium-plated sandblasted or blue lacquered Baton hands

CASE
Round, 39.5 mm in diameter
Palladium (
≈ 36.45 g)
Sapphire crystal and case-back with anti-glare treatment Shadded dark-grey transfer
Water-resistant to 3 bar
20 mm interhorn width

STRAP
Matt graphite alligator
17 mm pin buckle in palladium (
≈ 4.15 g)




Thursday, November 23, 2017

PRE-SIHH From Hermès

A new take on the Cape Cod -

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Available in a few new versions, the two that caught my eye were these.  A blue lacquered dial (above).

And a what Hermès refers to as a black gold-treated and polished dial (below) -


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Here are the pertinents -

DIAL
Blue lacquered or black gold-treated and polished dial, coated with a translucent lacquer.
Applied “Anchor Chain” hour-markers. Rhodium-plated hands

CASE
A square embedded in a rectangle
Large model (GM), 29 x 29 mm, lug width of 19 mm Imagined by Henri d’Origny in 1991
316L steel
Sapphire crystal with anti-glare treatment Water-resistant to 3 bar

STRAP
Malta blue grained or étoupe smooth calfskin, single or double tour, equipped with a 316L steel 17 mm pin buckle

MOVEMENT
Quartz, Swiss made

FUNCTIONS
Hours and minutes