{"id":34610,"date":"2019-11-13T16:00:49","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T14:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/?p=34610"},"modified":"2019-11-12T16:27:20","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T14:27:20","slug":"34610","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/nouveaute-en-n-en\/focus-2\/34610.html","title":{"rendered":"Into the deep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-34605 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Acr16993160423360-9601287.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Acr16993160423360-9601287.png 510w, https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Acr16993160423360-9601287-209x300.png 209w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 222px) 100vw, 222px\" \/><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>In 1992, French artist Annie Faivre, <\/b><\/span>known for her vivid abstract work, designed Herm\u00e8s\u2019s now-famous \u201cGrands Fonds\u201d scarf \u2013 the first of many wildly colorful scarves depicting marine life. Using the Arceau watch as the canvas, Herm\u00e8s has taken inspiration from the \u201cGrands Fonds\u201d in creating the Arceau Grands Fonds : a limited edition of six pieces showcasing a unique glass mosaic technique on the dial. Its dial is a stunning depiction of the craftsmanship behind Herm\u00e8s\u2019s gifted artisans. In its turquoise \u2018waters\u2019 swims a blue and yellow fish, sprinkled with white spots, meticulously crafted out of a mosaic of colored glass tiles. This technique requires over a month of work on each dial, with each specialist selecting a range of colored glass tesserae, melting them at temperatures of over 700 \u00b0C to form thin filaments, cutting them into small squares and then carefully placing them one by one on the dial where the motif has been reproduced to scale. After being left to dry for a month, the mosaic is examined to see whether the tiles have settled to form the uniformly flat surface required for fitting the dial smoothly into the white gold case, yet incredibly challenging given the nature of molten glass. The delightfully whimsical Arceau Grands Fonds embodies Faivre\u2019s original work, highlighted by the talent of artisans at the heart of Herm\u00e8s\u2019 <i>manufacture<\/i>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>Arceau Grands Fonds<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>CASE : <\/b><\/span>white gold with sapphire crystal caseback <span class=\"s1\"><b>SIZE : <\/b><\/span>41mm\u00a0<span class=\"s1\"><b>MOVEMENT : <\/b><\/span>Manufacture Herm\u00e8s H1837 movement, mechanical self-winding, 50-hour power reserve\u00a0<span class=\"s1\"><b>FUNCTIONS : <\/b><\/span>hours, minutes <span class=\"s1\"><b>DIAL : <\/b><\/span>Glass mosaic\u00a0<span class=\"s1\"><b>STRAP : <\/b><\/span>sapphire blue alligator strap<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1992, French artist Annie Faivre, known for her vivid abstract work, designed Herm\u00e8s\u2019s now-famous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":34602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[80],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34610"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34610"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34613,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34610\/revisions\/34613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}