Hermes presents: Arceau Pocket Amazones. This new Hermes timepiece was designed based on ties with a painted dial and was created by Henri d’Origny. The points of the watch were placed by hand on the lower dial and are made of gold while the belt and the mounting system used previously by d’Origny in 1978 pay homage to […]

Europe is at risk of becoming nothing more than a tourist attraction for wealthy Chinese if it does not reform, head of luxury goods group Richemont Johann Rupert said. Rupert, the South African chairman and chief executive of Richemont told a results conference call on Wednesday that a few years ago he had said, “If […]

Today, while touring the leather workshop at La Montre Hermès watch manufacture near Neuchatel, Switzerland, I learned why it takes two hours to make one leather strap the Hermès way. After checking out the leather vault and witnessing the choosing, cutting and shaving of the leather (a one-hour process), I was led to a work […]

I have been doing some research on Hermès, as I will be visiting the manufacture near La Chaux-de-Fonds and the design studio in Paris next week. Like many watch brands, Hermès only recently developed its own base caliber, but I was surprised to learn that, like most of the mor well-known top watch brands, Hermès […]

La Montre Hermès has presented its two first manufacture movements which, alongside the “Grandes Heures” and “Le temps suspendu” complications, stays with the divine craftsmanship and excellence commanded by a House with a watchmaking tradition that dates back to 1912. One calibre has given rise to two elite movements measuring time in both the feminine […]

As luxury watchmakers struggle to obtain supplies of high-quality parts, French handbag maker Hermes said their watch unit has been in exclusive talks to buy all of Swiss high-end dial maker, Nateber. Hermes agreed to buy almost a third of family-owned Swiss watch case maker Joseph Erard and made this move several months later. Details […]

The World Luxury Association announced the world’s leading luxury brands with Cartier positioned first in the jewelry group and Patek Philippe leading the luxury watch category. Watch brands also making the list included Vacheron Constantin, Piaget, Jaeger-Le Coultre, Piguet, Audemars Piguet, Blancpain, Rolex, Breguet, IWC and Franck Muller. Like Haute Time? Join our Facebook page […]