HERMES’ ARCEAU MILLEFIORI

As the Hermès group is a fount of traditional artisanal knowledge in numerous fields from leather-working and silk-screening to silversmithing, this time its watchmaking arm decided to turn to Cristalleries Royales de Saint-Louis (Saint-Louis Royal Crystal-Works), a 100 per cent Hermès-owned affiliate company based in Lorraine in northeastern France, to help it create a series of wristwatches and pocket watches embellished with unconventional crystal dials and covers inspired by 19th-century paperweights – a signature Saint-Louis product.…

AN ICON GOES MINIMAL

It’s tough to improve on perfection, but that’s precisely what Hermès has done with the new hyper-pared-down Birkin Sellier 40.
According to Couli Jobert, the leather artistic director at Hermès, natural brown was deemed too obvious for the new Birkin, which is only available in matte black with silver palladium hardware.…