HERMÈS CAPE COD CHAÎNE D’ANCRE

The Cape Cod’s history is all about experimentation. Its original design was a bold “square in a rectangle” concept sketched by artistic director Henri d’origny in 1991. The double tour strap was added in 1998, followed by stone, lacquer and colourful leather dials in 2016, and a matte-black diamond-like carbon case in 2017. This year sees the watch reinterpreting the iconic anchor chain motif created in 1938, rendering it in black spinels, white mother-of-pearl, and aventurine or diamonds against a black or white lacquered dial. The result is a watch that is both daring and feminine.