iW Magazine Winter 2019 | Page 101

ARCEAU L’HEURE DE LA LUNE AVAILABLE WITH TWO STUNNING DIAL OPTIONS, the Hermès Arceau L’heure de la Lune is a particularly bold moonphase watch. It offers simultaneous display of moon phases in the northern and southern hemispheres while also showing the time and date. Both displays rotate, retaining their orientation, around either a meteorite or aventurine dial, revealing mother-of-pearl moons that are coupled with the Manufacture Hermès H1837 movement, assisted by a moonphase module made for Hermès. Only one of the moons here is a realistic depiction of our satellite’s true surface. The other, at the top of the dial, is adorned by a Pegasus designed by Dimitri Rybaltchenko. Entitled Pleine Lune (Full Moon), this portrayal of the winged horse is said to “hint at a passage between two worlds, where magic and reality merge.” The 43mm white gold Hermès Arceau case with its asymmetrical lugs frames the meteorite stone or aventurine dial. The watches are to be issued in two 100-piece limited editions, and fitted with a matt alligator strap in graphite grey or abyss blue. WINTER 2019 | INTERNATIONAL WATCH | 101