Dressage Quantième Perpétuel En Or Blanc

The links between equestrianism and the art of watchmaking have inspired Hermès to produce a rigorously designed range with the evocative name of Dressage. Rider, master leatherworker and master watchmaker share the same sense of perfection in terms of gestures combining patience and knowhow. Passionate keepers of tradition, their hands are guided by the same quest for elegance and precision. The Dressage range invites connoisseurs to share timepieces that uphold the greatest watchmaking traditions and are imbued with the Hermès philosophy.

Dressage Perpetual Calendar

A veritable mechanical programmer capable of mastering irregularities in the date until 2100, the perpetual calendar remains one of the major complications of watchmaking art. Taking into account automatically months with 30 and 31 days and 28 or 29 days in February, it contains a mechanical memory whose sequences are repeated every 48 months to correspond to the cycle of leap years.

Guarding the memory of the future, the Dressage Perpetual Calendar is the new watchmaking exploit revealed by the House. The charming ballet of its functions is orchestrated by the 393 components of the Hermès Manufactory movement. The dial ensures excellent legibility for composition of the different displays: the name of the day appears at 9 o'clock, the month at 3 o'clock. The years are displayed at 12 o'clock. The perpetual calendar is completed by an aperture for phases of the moon at 6 o'clock, a mechanism so accurate that it will take 122 years for it to deviate by a single day from the actual cycle of the moon.

This is a richly profiled and stylish watch, an object of passion whose beauty is sculpted in white or rose gold. The open case-back of the Dressage Perpetual Calendar reveals to its owner the handfinished components of its movement and the exclusive decorations of its oscillating weight. The history of La Montre Hermès blends with the future in this new centrepiece of the Manufactory, which in keeping with the tradition of rare timepieces created by the House is produced in a numbered limited edition.