Heure d'ici & Heure d'ailleurs (Time here & Time elsewhere)
Van Cleef & Arpels has released a new variant of its dual time zone complication with double jumping hours and retrograde minutes . It's the Midnight Heure d'ici & Heure d'ailleurs ref. VCARPEVI00 . So I thought it would be interesting to review the three...
I agree, but one could argue that they didn't flip here.
It's just that the reference number is 0 at 6 o'clock instead of 12 o'clock. But the numbers from 0 to 60 are all oriented in the same direction. So it's at least consistent.
I love the jump hour concept for showing two time zones.
The newest 38mm model is the best imo.
It's the first iteration for me, quattro.
I tell myself that he lugs and the extra text on the dial shouldn't work, but they do. Fascinating, beautiful piece...
VC&A has done a beautiful piece.
They manage to make this complication āpoeticā rather than āfactualā. Best, Emmanuel