Hermes Apple Watch edition hits online store on Friday
Four months after announcing a special Apple Watch edition created in collaboration with French fashion house Hermes, Apple is taking the device out of limited availability and will begin online sales starting Friday.
According to Fashionista, all ten styles and sizes in the Apple Watch Hermes collection will debut online for the first time at the end of this week, to be available through both Apple.com and Hermes.com.
Announced in September alongside new Apple Watch Sport colors and a fall collection of Sport Band options, the Hermes package comes with a stainless steel Watch and leather straps designed exclusively for Apple's device. The Single Tour buckle, for example, is a classic wristwatch strap that starts at $1,100, while the Double Tour design wraps around the wrist twice and comes in at $1,250. The most expensive configuration is the $1,500 Cuff, which features a large leather strap and is only available with Apple's 42mm Watch.
The Hermes line went on sale in October at select Apple retail locations, such as Los Angeles, Miami, New York, San Francisco, and Toronto. Hermes also sold the product through its luxury boutiques.
In an interview last year, Apple SDO Jony Ive revealed the Hermes partnership was in the works well before Apple Watch was first unveiled in 2014. Under an unusual set of circumstances, Apple allowed the fashion firm access to early models of the device. Even more peculiar is Apple's willingness to allow Hermes to essentially appropriate Watch branding with custom watch faces bearing the company's logo and typography.
According to Fashionista, all ten styles and sizes in the Apple Watch Hermes collection will debut online for the first time at the end of this week, to be available through both Apple.com and Hermes.com.
Announced in September alongside new Apple Watch Sport colors and a fall collection of Sport Band options, the Hermes package comes with a stainless steel Watch and leather straps designed exclusively for Apple's device. The Single Tour buckle, for example, is a classic wristwatch strap that starts at $1,100, while the Double Tour design wraps around the wrist twice and comes in at $1,250. The most expensive configuration is the $1,500 Cuff, which features a large leather strap and is only available with Apple's 42mm Watch.
The Hermes line went on sale in October at select Apple retail locations, such as Los Angeles, Miami, New York, San Francisco, and Toronto. Hermes also sold the product through its luxury boutiques.
In an interview last year, Apple SDO Jony Ive revealed the Hermes partnership was in the works well before Apple Watch was first unveiled in 2014. Under an unusual set of circumstances, Apple allowed the fashion firm access to early models of the device. Even more peculiar is Apple's willingness to allow Hermes to essentially appropriate Watch branding with custom watch faces bearing the company's logo and typography.
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How about "Gold"?! "Apple Watch Gold"! Then when they come out with a Titanium version call those "Apple Watch Titanium"? Since the material is the only differentiating factor for paying $10K or more... If they want to keep all of the current and future high-end versions with a single name, call them "Apple Watch Elements" or some such name.
Because you don't and are simply trolling.
I always found it a little odd too. So we have the Sport edition, the Watch edition and the Edition edition... Edition edition - a name so nice, you have to say it twice!
Tim will choose business partners carefully. Partnering with just anybody will lower the cachet of the Watch, and that's no small thing. The other thing is will some of these big names see Apple as adding to their cachet.
It's rare that I see a knock-off that is "good-enough" let alone as good as what it's copying. I've tried several bands from Amazon, and most have gone back except were Amazon wanted to charge me shipping.
The leather bands are barely OK for occasional use, but if that's fine with the buyer, it's ok with me. But there is a big difference in quality between Apple, Pen and Quill, and other established sellers, and just about every bargain Amazon product. I don't even have to see the bands side by side to see the obvious differences in quality. The various metal bands are worse. But if the buyer is fine with their bang for the buck, who am I to complain.
The same thing goes for those who are willing to spend more to get more. The "ROI", their enjoyment of their purchase is just as valid as that of the person who likes Amazon bargains. Life is too short to worry about how somebody else chooses to spend their money.