{"id":9596,"date":"2016-05-16T20:58:28","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T20:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.truefacet.com\/guide\/?p=9596"},"modified":"2018-07-02T10:53:02","modified_gmt":"2018-07-02T14:53:02","slug":"5-things-didnt-know-h-bracelet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.truefacet.com\/guide\/5-things-didnt-know-h-bracelet\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Things You Didn’t Know About Herm\u00e8s Jewelry"},"content":{"rendered":"
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After 180 years in business, Herm\u00e8s has been at the center of some of the fashion\u2019s biggest status symbols, from its It-bags to its coveted jewelry. We rounded up five little-known facts about Herm\u00e8s jewelry that will surprise even some of the brand\u2019s biggest fans!<\/p>\n

1. The Clic Clac bracelet is not the official name of the iconic Herm\u00e8s bracelet.<\/strong>
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\nWhile fans dubbed this Herm\u00e8s enamel bracelet the Clic Clac, it\u2019s actually named the Herm\u00e8s H Bracelet. The Herm\u00e8s H Bracelet prominently features the Herm\u00e8s H as its clasp, flanked on either side by colored enamel. The Herm\u00e8s H earned its moniker the Clic Clac bracelet because of the sound the bracelet makes when it\u2019s taken on or off.<\/p>\n

The Herm\u00e8s H Clic Clac is available in three sizes, in 100 enamel colors with three hardware options: silver, gold, and now rose gold. Herm\u00e8s shoppers can pseudo-customize their H Bracelets which has spurred a sort of collect-them-all<\/em> air around these fan-favorite bracelets.<\/p>\n

2. Herm\u00e8s began as a manufacturer of luxury goods\u2026 for horses.<\/strong>
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\nThe founder of Herm\u00e8s, Thierry Herm\u00e8s, began his career in 1837 making horse harnesses for the European noble class. Herm\u00e8s received critical praise for his craftsmanship and was awarded the first prize in its class at the 1855 and later the 1867 Expositions Universelles in Paris for his carriage bridles. From there Herm\u00e8s production expanded to include saddles, saddle bags, golf jackets, and leather bags. In fact, it wasn\u2019t until the mid-1950s that Herm\u00e8s began designing and producing jewelry.<\/p>\n

3. Herm\u00e8s partnered with a nomadic African tribe to produce silver jewelry.\u00a0<\/strong>
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The Tuareg people are a semi-nomadic tribe that live in northern Africa throughout Libya, Algeria, Niger and the Saharan desert. The tribe is particularly noted for their indigo blue-colored veils, worn by men that is believed to ward off evil spirits, and their traditional hand-crafted art. Tuareg art largely takes the form of silver jewelry, decorative saddles, and meter-long swords called takoba<\/em>.<\/p>\n

In the early 1990s, a French tour guide and an art collector appealed to Herm\u00e8s for aid to help the skilled Tuareg blacksmiths receive fair trade prices for their silver goods. In turn, Herm\u00e8s and the Tuareg tribesmen partnered to produce their silver jewelry. Herm\u00e8s also incorporates the tribe\u2019s traditional motifs into prints for Herm\u00e8s scarves, ties and other goods.<\/p>\n

4.\u00a0Alfred Hitchcock can be credited for the popularity of the Herm\u00e8s Kelly handbag and bracelet.<\/strong>
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\nAlthough the Herm\u00e8s Kelly bag (or the Sac \u00e0 D\u00e9p\u00eaches<\/em> as it was first named) dates back to 1892, its popularity sky-rocketed in 1954, thanks, in part, to legendary film-maker Alfred Hitchcock. Hitchcock permitted costume designer Edith Head to purchase Herm\u00e8s accessories to dress actress Grace Kelly for his film To Catch a Thief<\/em>. It is rumored that Kelly immediately fell in love with the Herm\u00e8s handbag and carried it off-screen as well. The style icon famously shielded her face from the photo-snapping paparazzi with her large Herm\u00e8s bag while out with her new husband, Prince Rainier III. After the photo ran in Life<\/em> magazine, the handbag was an immediate It-bag sensation and thereafter referred to as the Herm\u00e8s Kelly bag. However, it wasn\u2019t officially renamed by Herm\u00e8s until 1977. Herm\u00e8s would later release the Kelly Bracelet which was inspired by the famous bag\u2019s closure.<\/p>\n

5. Herm\u00e8s jewelry has an elaborate stamped date code system.<\/strong>
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Herm\u00e8s leather goods, including its jewelry and handbags, are all stamped with a series of letters and shapes to identify when the item was made. For instance, handbags stamped with an E inside of a circle were produced in 1976 and an R inside of a square was made in 2014. Beside the date code, there are additional stamps to trace back the artisan or shop that produced that specific Herm\u00e8s leather good.<\/p>\n

Herm\u00e8s was one of the first brands to adopt this stamped date code system. These stamps are known as blind stamps so they are embossed into the leather directly without color. They are also hand-stamped so the stamp will sometimes appear uneven or quite faint.<\/p>\n

The date code is especially helpful when evaluating the authenticity of an Herm\u00e8s piece. And while these codes are easily found online, some counterfeiters are too haphazard to stamp the correct code. Therefore, when shopping for any pre-owned Herm\u00e8s goods, cross-reference the date code and the product listing to ensure the stamps and the description align correctly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After 180 years in business, Herm\u00e8s has been at the center of some of the fashion\u2019s biggest status symbols, from its It-bags to its coveted jewelry. We rounded up five little-known facts about Herm\u00e8s jewelry that will surprise even some of the brand\u2019s biggest fans! 1. The Clic Clac bracelet is not the official name […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[314,6],"tags":[11,59,51,18,68],"class_list":["post-9596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brand-spotlight","category-education","tag-education-2","tag-fashion","tag-hermes","tag-jewelry","tag-womens"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.truefacet.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.truefacet.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.truefacet.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.truefacet.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.truefacet.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9596"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.truefacet.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16618,"href":"https:\/\/www.truefacet.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9596\/revisions\/16618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.truefacet.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.truefacet.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.truefacet.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.truefacet.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}