GENEVA
DEBUTS
2019
HERMÈS
ARCEAU L’HEURE DE LA LUNE
EXOTICS
Hermès almost annually debuts a watch that approaches timekeeping
from a distinctive and unusual angle. Calling 2019 ‘Year of the Dream,’
Hermès continues this streak in beautiful form with this 43mm white
gold watch. The watch simultaneously displays moon phases in an
untraditional manner with the southern hemisphere at the top and
northern hemisphere below, while also showing the time and date.
Both displays rotate, retaining their orientation, around either a
meteorite or aventurine dial, each day revealing another sliver of
the artistic mother-of-pearl moons. The Manufacture Hermès H1837
movement, assisted by a moonphase module made for Hermès, powers
the displays. Each version will be made in a series of 100 watches, each
priced at $25,500.
104 | INTERNATIONAL WATCH | SPRING 2019