Luc Perramond has been at the head of La Montre Hermès since 2009, and has assigned it the mission of creating “time to dream”, specifying that he wished to place technology in the service of poetry and stating that “we must enchant clients”. Just as Hermès does with all artisans working for the great House, whatever their profession, it requested the multiple award-winning creative watch designer Jean-Marc Wiederrecht to take his time in creating an unconventional object. Three years later, when the world-first function housed within the Arceau Le Temps Suspendu watch is activated, the question that comes to mind is not “what time is it?”, but “where time is it?”. By delicately pressing the pushpiece at 9 o’clock, the Epicurean owner of this timepiece decides to take a break. The hour and minute hands switch to stand-by mode by positioning themselves around noon in an entirely unaccustomed manner. The watch no longer indicates the time, although it continues to count it off. Another press on the same pushpiece at any time makes the watch display the correct time once more, thanks to a complex split-level mechanism with column wheel and 360° retrograde hands.