L'Heure de tous, Bronze sculpture at Gare Saint-Lazare, France

L'Heure de tous is a bronze sculpture by Arman made of round clock faces stacked and pressed into one another to form a tall column, with a denser cluster of overlapping clocks near the middle. Each clock has a dark face, pale numerals and hands, and a thick bronze rim. It stands on a dark concrete base in the Cour du Havre of the Gare Saint-Lazare.

L'Heure de tous was made by Arman in 1985 as a public commission from the French state, through the Ministry of Culture and Communication and the Centre national des arts plastiques. It was installed that same year in the Cour du Havre of the Gare Saint-Lazare. Arman, a signatory of the Constitutive Declaration of New Realism, built the piece from accumulated bronze clocks, the everyday objects he collected throughout his career.

The clock collection speaks to travelers who feel pulled between different time zones and places at once. By layering actual clocks displaying distinct moments, the work captures how movement and displacement shape our sense of time.

The work stands in the Cour du Havre, an open courtyard in front of the station entrance, making it easy to spot from different angles. Visitors can view it freely while moving through the station area, and it often serves as a natural gathering or meeting point.

Arman signed the 1960 Constitutive Declaration of New Realism, whose programme of "new perceptual approaches to reality" shaped his accumulations of mass-produced objects. A second Arman accumulation, Consigne à vie, stands in the Cour de Rome of the same station, so two works by the same hand frame the building.