With the “In The Pocket” watch, Hermès is reviving a fundamental piece that was to forge its watchmaking history already spanning more than a century. It all began in 1912, when Jacqueline Hermès, still a child at the time, received a gift from her father in the shape of an ingenious “porte-oignon” (or “onion bag”) pocket watch holder designed to be secured to the wrist. It had been designed so that the keen young horsewoman could ride without having to attach her pocket watch to her clothing.

This unique and iconic model now returns in a rose gold composition, clad in a H red Swift calfskin. A pocket-watch that may be transformed at will into a wristwatch, it embodies both the historical leatherware craftsmanship of Hermès and its watchmaking development to the point of becoming a full-fledged Manufacture.

The 40 mm diameter of the delicately rounded rose gold case increases to 49 mm when worn on the wrist with the holder. Its finely grained black dial reinterpreted in an Only Watch execution avoids any superfluous ornamentation so as to provide the clearest, most self-evident expression of time. The baton-type hands sweep over pared-down numerals, while the small seconds ticks round at 3 o’clock, all driven by the Manufacture Hermès H1837 movement with a 50-hour power reserve. The colour of the chapter ring echoes the H red emblematic of the House of Hermès.