Hermes was established by Mr.Thierry Hermes in 1837,when it was mainly a maker of saddles and harnesses.
Not until 1889 when his son Charles-Emile Hermes transferred the factory to 24 FUBAO avenue,Paris, where the first exclusive agency was set. Until today, its location is stil in the very site. After centuries management of five generations of this family, Hermes has been always faithful to its brand philosophy:traditon and innovation, under which it has been always pursuing excellent quality, extraordinary handcraft and inaugurative spirit.
With Paris as its base and watch as its most important business, Hermes steadly extends to different business and other markets, its branches all over the world.
Hermes family’s attention to wristwatches can be traced to 1912’s family photo, where Emile Hermes’s daughter Jacqueline Hermes wore a mini-wristwatch decorated with a Hermes leather wristband.
Since 1920s, Hermes has already applied their skilful handcraft and rich experience obtained from years’ making leather products and harnesses to watchmaking industry,which makes the wirstbands more delicate. During 1950s, Hermes produced numerous high-quality wristwatches together with several Swiss prestigious watchmaking factories.
In 1978,the fifth generation Mr. Jean-Louis Dumas was officially dominated presider of the group and administrative president. Then he established a new watchmaking branch La Montre Hermes in Bill Switzerland to preside over the production and distribution of watches.
Endowned with Hermes’170- year-old traditional spirit and almost 80-year-old Swiss watcmaking handcraft, together with Parisian designers’ inexhaustible innovation, Hermes’ every product has a distinct story and fully reprents its brand philosophy.
Hermes wristwatch has a complete category, including the classical H-our, Clipper, Cape Cod, Kelly and Belt wristwatches, which are inspired by the design of Hermes products; Arceau, Harnais,Rally, Tandem and Barenia, which fully demonstrate Hermes’ harnesses making spirit.
During recent years,Hermes has continues to extend its watch business, and its collaboration with Vaucher in develpment and producing presice machine wristwatches advances its technology to a higher lever. Both the Cape Cod 8 and Cape Cod 1928 wristwatch are appraised as the most accurate masterwork and list Hermes among the advanced watchmaking masters.
Ever since 2000, Hermes began to exploit the backland watch market.To date, Hermes has set up nearlly 30 distribution agencies, including 6 Hermes exclusive agencies,20 or so watch distribution agencies, and 2 Hermes watch exclusive agencies.
Such a short time saw Hermes’ development from watch shoppe to watch exclusive agency, which is adequate to go with Hermes’s active and pragmatic distribution strategy to Chinese market.
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