Hermès CEO Laurent Dordet described the brand’s new Arceau Le Temps Voyageur—available in two versions, a 38 mm blue-steel model and a 41 mm black platinum style—as a watch with “two invitations to travel,” referring to the real-world GMT function that provides the time in two different time zones simultaneously, as well as the imaginary world depicted on the dial, a stunning “Planisphère d’un monde équestre” fantasy map, borrowed from a silk scarf design by Jérôme Colliard.
Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Grande Tradition Caliber 948 At the center of Jaeger-LeCoultre’s magnificent new world time watch is a map of the world as seen from the North Pole. Not your standard 2-D map, this version floats above the dial bed on a domed skeleton formed by the longitude and latitude lines of the Northern Hemisphere, in which the outlines of the continents are cut from a sheet of white gold and decorated with champlevé enamel.