Of interest are the historical timepieces, a collection that is most admired by creative director Hermès Horloger Philippe Delhotal who admitted to spending many hours at the museum to absorb the spirit of the place to get inspired for all the Hermès Horloger launches.
SINGAPORE (July 9): In November 2019, we had a very rare opportunity to be taken on a journey of how a Hermès timepiece is made. We started at the very beginning; the ideas and inspiration stage. This was at the Emile Hermès Museum that is located at the top of the Hermès flagship store on Faubourg Saint-Honore in Paris.
It is at this museum that many Hermès collaborators are invited to come in and have a look — to glean ideas from the items collected by the founder Emile-Maurice Hermès on his many travels around the world. Altogether, there are about 55,000 Hermès heritage objects. Among them, we spotted collectibles including equestrian paraphernalia, a horse-drawn carriage, an old Hermès clock, pill boxes, swords, picnic baskets and travel trunks.
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