As it prepares for Baselworld 2017, slated to commence on March 23 Hermès fits a platinum case around its Quantième Perpétuel to create the newest addition to its popular Slim d’Hermès family, the Quantième Perpétuel Platine. This new model retains the perpetual calendar, date, month, dual-time and leap-year indications as the 2015 original model, which iW reviewed here.
The sleek design of the Slim d’Hermès Quantième Perpétuel Platine features the same dial Philippe Apeloig-designed typography found throughout the Slim d’Hermès collection and features a mother-of-pearl moon phase set against an aventurine sky and Abyss blue alligator strap.
Inside this 39.5mm dressy timepiece you’ll find a specially made Agenhor perpetual calendar module build atop the Hermes automatic Caliber H1950, an in-house movement developed with Vaucher, which Hermès co-owns. Even with the perpetual calendar module, the entire movement measures only 4mm thin, which makes it among the very thinnest of its type available. As with other notable thin and complicated timepieces, the use of a micro-rotor rather than a much larger full-sized, centrally set oscillating weight to power the caliber makes such a slim profile possible. Price: $39,900.
