Hermès – French style

The French luxury manufacturer Hermès was founded by Thierry Hermès in Paris in 1837 and has been family-owned ever since. World-famous for its leather and silk accessories, perfumes and jewelry, leather straps for wristwatches were added to the range for the first time at the end of the 1920s. At the same time, Hermès launched the leather-bound Ermeto pocket watch in collaboration with the Swiss watch manufacturer Movado. Finally, in 1978, La Montre Hermès SA, the company’s first own watch manufactory, was founded in Biel, Switzerland. Since then, the exclusive timepieces have been a trademark, created from sophisticated, useful and functional savoir-faire coupled with Swiss precision.