{"id":488,"date":"2011-06-08T13:56:52","date_gmt":"2011-06-08T12:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/preprod.gmtmag.com\/?p=488"},"modified":"2012-10-15T08:52:34","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T07:52:34","slug":"hermes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/nouveaute-en-n-en\/focus-2\/hermes-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Herm\u00e8s : Time suspends its flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>Arceau Le Temps Suspendu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Case:<\/strong> 750 rose gold or 316L steel <strong>Movement:<\/strong> mechanical self-winding (42-hour power reserve), 254 parts, circular-grained and snailed bridges, C\u00f4tes de Gen\u00e8ve on the oscillating weight, Time Suspended module with 360\u00b0 retrograde hour and minute hands <strong>Functions:<\/strong> hour, minute, date with retrograde functions; pushpiece serving to suspend time <strong>Dial:<\/strong> opaline silvered or black with stamped herringbone motif <strong>Water resistance:<\/strong> 30m<strong> Strap:<\/strong> matt havana or black alligator leather with rose gold or steel folding clasp <strong>Limited series:<\/strong> 174 in rose gold<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"contenu_article\">Luc Perramond has been at the head of La Montre Herm\u00e8s since 2009, and has assigned it the mission of creating \u201ctime to dream\u201d, specifying that he wished to place technology in the service of poetry and stating that \u201cwe must enchant clients\u201d. Just as Herm\u00e8s does with all artisans working for the great House, whatever their profession, it requested the multiple award-winning creative watch designer Jean-Marc Wiederrecht to take his time in creating an unconventional object. Three years later, when the world-first function housed within the Arceau Le Temps Suspendu watch is activated, the question that comes to mind is not \u201cwhat time is it?\u201d, but \u201cwhere time is it?\u201d. By delicately pressing the pushpiece at 9 o\u2019clock, the Epicurean owner of this timepiece decides to take a break. The hour and minute hands switch to stand-by mode by positioning themselves around noon in an entirely unaccustomed manner. The watch no longer indicates the time, although it continues to count it off. Another press on the same pushpiece at any time makes the watch display the correct time once more, thanks to a complex split-level mechanism with column wheel and 360\u00b0 retrograde hands.<\/div>\n<p><\/br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luc Perramond has been at the head of La Montre Herm\u00e8s since 2009, and has assigned it the mission of creating \u201ctime to dream\u201d, specifying that he wished to place technology in the service of poetry and stating that \u201cwe must enchant clients\u201d. Just as Herm\u00e8s does with all artisans working for the great House, whatever their profession, it requested the multiple award-winning creative watch designer Jean-Marc Wiederrecht to take his time in creating an unconventional object. Three years later, when the world-first function housed within the Arceau Le Temps Suspendu watch is activated, the question that comes to mind is not \u201cwhat time is it?\u201d, but \u201cwhere time is it?\u201d. By delicately pressing the pushpiece at 9 o\u2019clock, the Epicurean owner of this timepiece decides to take a break. The hour and minute hands switch to stand-by mode by positioning themselves around noon in an entirely unaccustomed manner. The watch no longer indicates the time, although it continues to count it off. Another press on the same pushpiece at any time makes the watch display the correct time once more, thanks to a complex split-level mechanism with column wheel and 360\u00b0 retrograde hands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":486,"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\/488"}],"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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}