Each year, Hermès offers new seasonal shades, colours that set the tone. In 2013, watch straps from the Maison are adopting lipstick pink – a tangy shade framing a case designed in 1978 by Henri d’Origny and featuring a curve inspired by the equestrian world. While time passes, the object and the style live on.
Hermès introduces two steel models with a matt white dial: a 28 mm case and another 32 mm version, housing a self-winding movement driving a central seconds hand and a date display at 3 o’clock. These models are fitted with a smooth Lipstick pink calfskin strap graced with a tone-on-tone interpretation of the emblematic Hermès saddle stitching.
While Hermès has been tailoring its history for 176 years, La Montre Hermès has housed a workshop dedicated to crafting leather straps since October 2006. For this distinctive signature reflecting its expertise, the brand meticulously selects its leather hides in a spirit of passion and perfection, revealing a wide and perpetually reinvented range of varieties and colours.
MOVEMENT
. Type Mechanical self-winding, made in Switzerland
. Diameter 19.4 mm (8 ¾‘’’)
. Thickness 3.6 mm
. Power reserve 40 hours
. Jewelling 20 jewels
. Frequency 28’800 vibrations per hour / 4Hz
. Decoration C ircular-grained and snailed mainplate and bridges, “Côtes de Genève” motif on the oscillating weight and Hermès Paris engraving
. Functions Hour, minute, seconds, date
CASE
. Shape/dimensions Round, 32 mm in diameter
. Material Steel
. Glass Glareproofed sapphire crystal
. Water resistance 5 atm
DIAL Matt white, anthracite transfer
INTERHORN
WIDTH 17 mm
BUCKLE 14 mm steel safety folding clasp
STRAP Lipstick pink smooth calf
