Hermes has designed the Hermes Alligator Table Clock to showcase at the forthcoming Only Watch 2009 event; Only Watch is an auction event held every two years in Monaco during the Monaco Yacht Show in collaboration with Patrizzi & Co. Auctioneers. This year, 35 high watch making brands will each make a unique piece for the auction and all proceeds will go to support research into Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.
The Hermes Alligator Table Clock is made in stainless steel but covered with 12 layers of red Hermes leather hand stitched with natural white linen thread. The measurements are 175mm H x 150mm W x 37mm T; the clock is based on Swiss movements that allow an 8 day power reserve of caliber 51 which functions together with 15 jewels that beat at 18,000bph.
It also has the characteristic pure lines of the 1930s – today revisited but conserving the details which first gave it its personality – leather dial, anthracite metal indexes and hands, and manual winding key in the shape of a Hermès “H”.
The Hermes Alligator Table Clock will be presented in a Hermès red lacquered traveling case which carries a small plaque: “Only Watch 2009”.
