At Herm\u00e8s, driven by an idea, an inspiration, a creative breath, stories are told.
\nWatchmaking know-how meets sometimes ancestral crafts. The House’s imagination provides enamellers, engravers, lapidaries and gem setters with an additional space for expression, so that Herm\u00e8s time can run its course.differently. <\/p>\n
In the watchmaking workshops, skilled hands are busy giving shape to Herm\u00e8s time. They assemble bridges and gears on the movements’ blank plates, shape the cases, apply chatons and numerals to the dials and sew the bracelets. Manufacture movements begin to beat. Leather became bracelets. Gold has taken on the shape of a case.
\nThe Herm\u00e8s watchmaking factory masters every stage of watchmaking.
\nElsewhere, brushes, chisels, stamps, erasers and stamps spring into action. Operated by
\nexpert hands, these tools bring the Herm\u00e8s imagination to life. Sublimated by the gestures of craftsmen, Herm\u00e8s time, at the crossroads of watchmaking and artisanal know-how, delivers a singular score, punctuated by the finest hours of art craftsmanship. <\/p>\n
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\nThe rendezvous of two meticulous arts
\nIn the Manufacture’s workshops, master watchmakers shape and assemble the tiny components that will form the Herm\u00e8s H1950 extra-flat manufacture movement. It’s all about balance, so as not to sacrifice anything to the performance of this caliber, which is only 2.6 mm thick. They tame the energy to provide a confor- table power reserve while maintaining a high oscillation fr\u00e9- quence. They hand-bevel and engrave the bridges with a seed of H’s. Patiently, they assemble and adjust each component to the hundredth of a millimeter.
\nMeanwhile, an enamelling craftsman prepares to shape the dial in Grand Feu enamel. It all begins on a copper disc refined to 0.2 mm. Using a brush, the craftsman covers both sides of the copper plate with a highly flammable material, before sprinkling on the glass powder. On contact with the heat of a kiln heated to over 800\u00b0C, the secret composition ignites, earning this technique the name Grand Feu enamel. As the mysterious substance evaporates, the molten glass powder becomes enamel, congealing on the metal disc. Several kiln passes are required to achieve the desired result. A perfectly white enamel, so smooth and shiny that it needs no polishing. <\/p>\n
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