Cover Take Your Time Oriental Watch Company joins hands with Hong Kong contemporary artist Hermia Wong to present “Take Your Time × Hermia Wong – The Palette of Time at Home”, a limited time art exhibition celebrating creativity, colour and artistic expression (Photo: Oriental Watch Company)
Take Your Time Oriental Watch Company joins hands with Hong Kong contemporary artist Hermia Wong to present “Take Your Time × Hermia Wong – The Palette of Time at Home”, a limited time art exhibition celebrating creativity, colour and artistic expression (Photo: Oriental Watch Company)
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At Elements, Hermia Wong’s vivid portraits of Hong Kong meet Oriental Watch Company’s invitation to slow down
Hong Kong is a city that rarely stands still. In Hermia Wong’s paintings, its colours, sounds and history become moments to stop and pay attention to. That idea of slowing down is at the heart of Take Your Time × Hermia Wong—The Palette of Time at Home, a limited-time exhibition at Oriental Watch Company’s Elements store, running until December 31.
Wong graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) with Distinction from Australia’s RMIT University in 2021, a joint degree with the Hong Kong Art School. Working across painting, drawing and objects, she takes the city around her as a point of departure, capturing neon-lit street corners, trams rattling along their tracks and the lights stretching across Victoria Harbour. Her work has been exhibited at shows including the Hong Kong International Arts and Culture Festival 2026, Affordable Art Fair Hong Kong and Collect Hong Kong, and awarded prizes she won Best of Show in the Landscapes category at Colors of Humanity Art Gallery in the US in 2021.
Above Hermia Wong is a Hong Kong based artist specializing in paintings, drawing and objects that allow her to explore the relationship with the
environment (Photo: Oriental Watch Company)
Above Created exclusively for this exhibition, “As Time Passed by” draws inspiration from Hong Kong’s historic trams and luminous neon cityscape (Photo: Oriental Watch Company)
Hermia Wong is a Hong Kong based artist specializing in paintings, drawing and objects that allow her to explore the relationship with the environment (Photo: Oriental Watch Company)
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Rather than making photoreal reproductions of these scenes, Wong heightens their colours, highlighting moments and memories that time holds onto. For the artist, colour becomes a subjective way of seeing the world, allowing each fleeting moment to linger a little longer. It is less about strict realism than presence, a fitting approach for a city that rarely stands still.
Created exclusively for the exhibition, As Time Passed By draws on Wong’s fascination with Hong Kong’s historic tramway and luminous neon cityscape. The work captures scenes that are familiar yet constantly changing, turning everyday views of the city into moments worth pausing over—or as she puts it, “seizing the precious moments that touch my mind”.
Created exclusively for this exhibition, “As Time Passed by” draws inspiration from Hong Kong’s historic trams and luminous neon cityscape (Photo: Oriental Watch Company)
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Established in 1961, Oriental Watch Company frames Take Your Time as an invitation to slow down and connect with the present. The brand has long supported local cultural development through collaborations with Hong Kong artists; Wong’s addition to that roster makes perfect sense.
The pairing of art and a long-standing art company also makes sense: a watch measures time; a painting holds on to it. At Elements, the two come together in an exhibition that offers a different way of looking at the city, one vivid moment at a time.
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