Apple has made its new boutique watch a vintage collector’s item with a Clarus the Dogcow Easter egg.<\/b>
\nThe Apple Watch Herm\u00e8s: you think of it either as a style flex for the rich, or an eye-rolling, embarrassing extravagance. But with the Series 11 version of the Apple Watch Herm\u00e8s, Apple has made the watch a badge of honor that any longtime, dedicated Apple user will proudly wear.
The Herm\u00e8s watch comes with a jacquard knit band and a matching watch face that features an illustration of the Faubourg Saint-Honor\u00e9 Herm\u00e8s store in Paris by artist Tibor K\u00e1rp\u00e1ti, who specializes in bitmap artwork. The band comes with 24 watch face animations \u201cfor around-the-clock fun.\u201d One of those watch faces features Clarus the Dogcow. Yes, that Clarus the Dogcow.
Clarus the dogcow on the new Herm\u00e8s Apple Watch. ????????
Longtime Apple users will know about Clarus the Dogcow, but for those who don\u2019t, here\u2019s the short history. Clarus was created by the iconic (pun intended) Susan Kare, who created the Dogcow glyph for the Cairo font on the original Macintosh in 1984. Clarus became something of a sentimental mascot for the Macintosh team and Mac users. Apple and its users are very different now, so Clarus appearances are rare and greeted wth delight.
Apple often offers exclusive watch faces for the Apple Watch Herm\u00e8s, so it\u2019s unlikely that it\u2019ll make its way to the rest of the watches. If you absolutely, positively gotta have Clarus the Dogcow on your Apple Watch, you can plunk down $1,249\/\u00a31,149 (42mm) or $1,299\/\u00a31,199 (46mm) for an Apple Watch Herm\u00e8s, or you can pay $449\/\u00a3399 for the Bleu Nuit Faubourg Party Faubourg Party watch band that comes with the 24 watch faces.
If that\u2019s still too rich for your blood\u2013or you just can\u2019t get over the idea of wearing an Apple Watch Herm\u00e8s\u2013you can go retro and keep an eye out for the original Clarus the Dogcow quartz watch on sites like eBay, which happens to have one on sale for the moment. This watch has no rings to close, nor can it detect if you\u2019ve fallen, but it does prominently feature Clarus on its face. That\u2019s enough of a badge of honor for a whole lot of us.
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