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.
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