A rare beauty from the early 80s, complete in its original box. This stunning gold bracelet by Hermès is built from repeating architectural links, flat, squared sections cut with precise chamfers, joined by ribbed connectors that keep the line moving with measured continuity. Each segment catches light differently across the surface like sunlight moving along a façade. On the wrist, the bracelet creates a continuous horizontal band of gold with real physical gravity.
Hermès has been refining this language of metal and hardware since 1837, when Thierry Hermès opened his harness workshop in Paris and began engineering buckles, bits and chains for the city’s carriage trade. We imagine this piece passed down from a Paris apartment whose closets still smell faintly of saddle soap and silk. Once you’ve felt its weight and seen the way those heavy links lock into one another, it is impossible to ever mistake it for anything other than what it is: Hermès Paris.
For a Parisian dealer in the 1980s and a New York collector now, this bracelet does the same specific thing: it folds the history of a harness‑maker’s atelier, a Normandy walk, and a century‑and‑a‑half on the Faubourg into one tangible, weighty loop of gold that turns every raised glass, every handshake, every gallery doorway into a into a perfectly framed moment, like stepping through a doorway on a Rohmer film set in Paris and finding yourself, for an instant, perfectly lit.
Designer: Hermès
Year: c. 1980s
Material: 18k Yellow Gold
Weight: 110 Grams
Size: Fits up to a 7.25" Wrist
Made in France
