{"id":4003,"date":"2013-01-14T11:13:26","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T10:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/preprod.gmtmag.com\/?p=4003"},"modified":"2016-06-17T16:43:14","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T14:43:14","slug":"hermes-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/nouveaute-en-n-en\/focus-2\/hermes-12.html","title":{"rendered":"Herm\u00e8s : A souvenir of close ties and intensely personal wear"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>In The Pocket<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Case\u2009: <\/strong>palladium 950, transparent caseback <strong>Diameter\u2009:<\/strong> 40 mm (49 with the leather strap) <strong>Movement\u2009:<\/strong> mechanical self-winding (Vaucher calibre, 50-hour power reserve), satin-brushed bridges and oscillating weight, circular-grained and snailed mainplate <strong>Functions\u2009:<\/strong> hours, minutes, small seconds at 3 o\u2019clock <strong>Dial\u2009:<\/strong> grained silver-toned <strong>Water resistance\u2009:<\/strong> 30m <strong>Strap:<\/strong> interchangeable calfskin strap in ebony Barenia calfskin, ebony Barenia calfskin cord-strap <strong>Limited series\u2009:<\/strong> 24<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"contenu_article\">\n<p>On this photo dating from 1912, Jacqueline Herm\u00e8s wears the ingenious leather strap encasing a pocket-watch designed by her father. A century later, Herm\u00e8s draws upon its historical expertise in re-issuing an exclusive limited series called <strong>In The Pocket.<\/strong> The 40 mm-diameter palladium case housing a self-winding Vaucher movement is delicately clad in Barenia leather. Composed of two separate parts, the <em>boucleteau<\/em> (the longer 6 o\u2019clock section) and the <em>sanglon<\/em> (the shorter 12 o\u2019clock section) this amazingly technical strap comprising three separate layers required ten days of hand craftsmanship to make, not to mention the soaking and drying stages. Cut, split again, sanded, stuck, stitched, marked with a compass, hallmarked and sewn according to the historical Herm\u00e8s saddle-stitching technique, the leather also calls for hammering the stitching, marking a furrow between the sewing line, along with dyeing and polishing with bees\u2019 wax. The hand-crafted complexity of this process is equalled only by the understated elegance of a grained silver-toned dial.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this photo dating from 1912, Jacqueline Herm\u00e8s wears the ingenious leather strap encasing a pocket-watch designed by her father. A century later, Herm\u00e8s draws upon its historical expertise in re-issuing an exclusive limited series called <strong>In The Pocket.<\/strong> The 40 mm-diameter palladium case housing a self-winding Vaucher movement is delicately clad in Barenia leather. Composed of two separate parts, the <em>boucleteau<\/em> (the longer 6 o\u2019clock section) and the <em>sanglon<\/em> (the shorter 12 o\u2019clock section) this amazingly technical strap comprising three separate layers required ten days of hand craftsmanship to make, not to mention the soaking and drying stages. Cut, split again, sanded, stuck, stitched, marked with a compass, hallmarked and sewn according to the historical Herm\u00e8s saddle-stitching technique, the leather also calls for hammering the stitching, marking a furrow between the sewing line, along with dyeing and polishing with bees\u2019 wax. The hand-crafted complexity of this process is equalled only by the understated elegance of a grained silver-toned dial.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":4001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[80],"tags":[220],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4003"}],"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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4003"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15700,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4003\/revisions\/15700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}