Melding Apple’s product innovation with the heritage and craftsmanship of Hermès, the Apple Watch Hermès Collection, introduced last fall, offers the best of both worlds. It features cutting-edge technology and an attention to aesthetic detail borne from the Hermès history of artisanal excellence.
“Apple and Hermès make very different products, but they reflect the deep appreciation of quality design,” said Jonathan Ive, Apple’s chief design officer. “Both companies are motivated by a sincere pursuit of excellence and the desire to create something that is not compromised.”
The passion and soul of Hermès is inextricably tied to the time-honored savoir-faire of handcrafting luxury leather, and at La Montre Hermès, this expertise is incorporated into the straps that complement the timepieces. Inside an intimate leather workshop at the manufacture, the traditions that originated with the construction of equestrian tack and saddles in Paris many years ago live on.
This collection of stainless steel watches replica features finely crafted Hermès Single Tour, Double Tour and Cuff leather straps, each respecting the design and functionality of the Apple Watch. Across the collection, the 38mm or 42mm cases reveal an etching of the Hermès signature and the watch may be customized with three typefaces on the face, three numeraldisplays and three complications.
“At Hermès, we strive to provide our clients with elegant, creative and functional objects for their everyday lives,” said Pierre-Alexis Dumas, executive vice president in charge of artistic direction at Hermès. “What more contemporary and relevant expression of this principle could there be than this collaboration with Apple.”
For spring the collection includes bold new strap colors and acontinuation of customer favorites. Existing colors of bands, including Fauve, Noir, Capucine, Bleu Jean and Etain are being sold, for the first time, separately and are augmented by awhole new collection of Single Tour and Double Tour bands that are also sold separately. These new straps are offered in “Hermès colors,” including Bleu Paon (Green), Bleu Saphir, Blanc (White) and the iconic Hermes color, Feu (Orange).
Apple Watch Hermès is currently available online and at select Apple retail stores, Hermès boutiques, specialty stores and department stores.