The all new Hermès Cape Cod Martelee

Parisian luxury brand introduces a modern classic

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Hermès’ best-loved Cape Cod is a study of paradoxes. First, there is the timepiece’s name: a flagship design of all-Parisian make Hermès, the Cape Cod is christened after a popular New England summertime holiday spot in Massachusetts, in the north-eastern United States. Then, there is its idiosyncratic shape. At first glance a right-angled watch, the Cape Cod’s blueprint in fact places a square within a rectangle. A trick of the eye, its sharp-edged dial is framed by two extended lugs meeting in a rounded curve.

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