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All-New Apple Watch Hermès 'Tricot' Knitted Band Released

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Apple and Hermès today released an all-new knitted "Tricot" Apple Watch band, available in four color options.

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Apple describes the Tricot Single Tour as "a knitted textile band that comfortably hugs the wrist like a glove." It is available as a single tour band only.

Patterned on 1930s-era Hermès gloves created for driving, sailing, and golf, the Tricot band takes what was old and makes it new again. The continuous textile knit comfortably hugs the wrist, imparting both a freedom of movement and a sense of élan.
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Hermès already sells a number of "Tricot" luxury accessories such as neckties. Unlike its main selection Tricot accessories, which tend to be made of 100% silk, the Apple Watch Hermès Tricot Single Tour is made of polyamide yarn. Polyamide is waterproof and enables the band to be used when swimming, just like all of the other non-leather Apple Watch Hermès bands.

The Tricot Single Tour band is available in Bleu Jean, Jaune de Naples, Orange, and Beige de Weimar. It is only compatible with 38mm, 40mm, and 41mm Apple Watch models.

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The Tricot Single Tour replaces the both the single and double tour Apple Watch Hermès Bridon bands on the company's main Apple Watch band webpage. The Apple Watch Hermès Bridon bands are knitted just like the Tricot, suggesting that the new band could replace it when stock runs out.

The Bridon band is still available, but it may only be while stocks last as a result. Apple tends to allow discontinued Apple Watch Hermès bands to sell out over a longer period of time rather than outright de-listing them. The Navy/Gris/Ciel Bridon band also continues to be available directly from Hermès, but now on a separate webpage, just like many of the leather Apple Watch Hermès bands that Apple stopped selling in September last year.

Alongside its refresh of iPhone and Apple Watch band color options earlier today, Apple and Hermès added Bleu Céleste/Écru and Framboise/Écru Color options to the Hermès Toile H Single Tour band, Bleu Céleste/Bleu Jean and Jaune d'Or/Bleu Jean color options to the Hermès Twill Jump Single Tour and, and Blanc and Bleu Céleste color options to the Hermès Kilim Single Tour band.

The Apple Watch Hermès Tricot Single Tour band is now available to order for $349.

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I realize anything branded Hermes will never be cheap, just like their leather Airtag loops are selling for 5-10x the price of a single unit, but yeah - there is a solid market for stupidly expensive accessories, even when they're made of synthetic knitted material.
 
When I see (what I perceive to be) overpriced luxury items, I at least try to give it the benefit of the doubt and look at why this is so much more expensive. For something like a luxury car, the elements are more obvious: fit, finish, paint, performance, size ratios between all the particular elements. A $150k Benz at a glance clearly looks like a nicer car than the $50k Benz. That’s not by accident, and you pay for it accordingly.

With this watch band, it requires a little more effort to understand the difference between this and a $10 band, let alone a $50 band. I am struggling to see the aesthetic after 30-45 seconds of studying it. Maybe it was christened with unicorn tears that give you god-like confidence in board meetings? Or maybe I’m not the target demographic :)
 
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Wagbh said:
Please tell me this isn't supposed to replace Hermès leather bands like the FineWoven crap?
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It already has, try buying a Hermes leather band with your Hermes watch or separately like you used to. Mother Nature would be proud! /s

Makes the ridiculous prices on these things even worse than they already are. I at least would want dead animal skin on my $1249+ watch.
 
All of these answers only go to show that none of you have ever had or tried on a (non-leather) Hermès strap for the Apple Watch. They just ooze quality and are in no way comparable to your typical Aliexpress crap. If that quality is worth 350$ (to you) is another question entirely, of course.

Edit: also, the article is wrong. The blue and beige ones are available for the larger Watch.
 
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Apple is essentially killling off the Hermes line of watches with garbage like this. In the end, people aren’t going to buy these cheap looking bands and Apple will just ditch the Hermes line altogether.

I mean if you aren’t selling the Hermes watches with luxury leather bands then what is the point?
 
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DMG35 said:
What’s your case? The Apple Watch is a minuscule fragment of Hermes’ business. A speck of dust in their product portfolio. Your graph is meaningless in regards to the Apple Watch.
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In terms of price to production costs and overall profitability, even give the overvalued P/E. I know that Apple accessories are a small part of Hermes (I also don't care).

I don't see the value proposition, even though I can afford it - rather put it towards another watch instead.

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