Cape Cod originated in the imagination of Henri d'Origny, when Hermès asked him to design a square watch. He responded in his own way with a square inside a rectangle. Since its launch in 1991, the Cape Cod has embraced the decades as well as the ebb and flow of time, materialised this year in an all-black version, the Shadow, which comes in a brushed steel case with a mat black diamond-like carbon finish. A mat black dial and a double-wrap strap in the same stealthy shade complete the look of this dark delight.