The Double Tour

Filed in archive Watches on April 7, 2010

Rediscovering Hermes is a bit like picking up a favorite book. It hasn't changed, but you have. Still, you reconnect in all the right places.

Okay, the analogy is a little over-done, but there's truth in it.

My rediscovery of Hermes started with their watch line. I met a particularly stylish woman who had a telltale double tour leather watchband curled around her slender wrist.

It looked like a Hermes Cape Cod PM Watch. I swear it had a brown strap.

The next day, I saw the woman again, and noticed that she was wearing the same double tour strap, but this time it was black. Good God - could she have more than one?

I expect to see her again later this week, and I confess that I hope she'll have the orange one. If I can't have three, well at least she can.

If you're going to have more than one watch, why not have Hermes? We already know these watches will be with us for a very long while, and I, for one, will appreciate them for years to come.

Photo above from Hermes.com.