Hermès – CARRÉ H Steel 38mm
SIHH 2018
TIME, A HERMÈS OBJECT
Hermès creates objects born of craftsmanship that revisits existing uses. Under its impetus, exacting know-how combines with creative freedom.
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Beyond their functional role, Hermès objects make everyday life their playground, each instant a uniquely special moment, and lightness a cardinal virtue.
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For Hermès, time is also an object. It is embraced with open arms or taken by the hand in a spirit of joyful companionship. The house dares to offer a time designed to open up interludes and create spaces for recreation.
CARRÉ H
In 2010, Hermès introduced the Carré H, a square timepiece created by Marc Berthier, with a modern aesthetic, designed for instant legibility.
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It now returns in a new style: Marc Berthier has enlarged the square by a few millimetres and opted for light effects, playing across the steel case with its polished and microbead-blasted finishes, on the dial with its right-angled guilloché work, and on the facetted hands and numerals.
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This perfectly balanced use of light harmoniously accentuates the clarity of the design, the softened edges of the square, the curved profile of the case, and the cylindrical crystal.
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Finally, the exclusive font of the numerals – making use of the zero – contributes to the new aesthetic equilibrium of this watch.
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Photography: Carl Kleiner
Calitho SA
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Art director: Rachel Cazadamont, assisted by Alexandre Onimus
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TECHNICAL CHARACTERISTICS
Model: CARRÉ H
Case
Designer: Marc Berthier (2010)
Case in polished and microbead-blasted 316L steel
Dimensions: 38 × 38mm, interhorn width 21mm
Medium size
Sapphire crystal and case-back with anti‑glare treatment
Water-resistant to 3 bar
Dial
- Dark grey
- Black
Applied rhodium-plated hour-markers and Arabic numerals, coated with Super-LumiNova® White transferred minute circle
Rhodium-plated hour and minute hands coated with Super-LumiNova®
Yellow or red second hand
Movement
Hermès Manufacture H1912 movement
Mechanical self-winding, Swiss made
Diameter: 23.3mm (10½’’’)
Thickness: 3.7mm
193 components, 28 jewels
Frequency of 28,800 VPH (4Hz)
Power reserve of 50 hours
Circular-grained and snailed mainplate, bridges and oscillating weight satin-brushed and adorned with the signature H pattern
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Functions
Hours, minutes and seconds
Strap
Natural or black Barénia calfskin
Pin buckle in microbead-blasted 316L steel, 21mm
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Press Release - 2018
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Hermès Horloger Press Relations
Katy Jolidon
katy.jolidon@montre-hermes.ch
+41 (0)32 366 71 00
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