Review: Hermès – Slim d’ Hermès La Femme aux semelles de vent

Alvin Wong 26 November 2015

Translated to mean “the woman with soles of wind,” this artisanal Hermès watch features a porcelain dial and miniature painting executed using the Japanese Aka-e technique.

It is a breathtaking piece of art, made even more meaningful by its context. The painting here is based on a drawing by artist Aline Honoré, used for a Hermès scarf produced in 2009, one of a series of scarf designs on the theme of travel. The woman in question is Alexandra David-Néel, a French/Belgian explorer and writer most famous for her journey to Lhasa, Tibet, in 1924 when it was closed to foreigners.

Alvin Wong

Ex Editor-In Chief

Alvin promises not to be a douche when talking about watches. He may have scoured the Basel and Geneva watch fairs for the past 15 years, and played an instrumental role to the growth of Singapore's pioneering horological and men's lifestyle publications, but the intrepid scribe seeks to learn something new with each story he writes.