What is your latest Hermes purchase?

TPF may earn a commission from merchant affiliate
links, including eBay, Amazon, and others

#33,468
Summerof89 said:
HK Airport always has stock, two weeks ago during my transit there was a k28 retourne in etain. You generally don’t need a history but need to spend around 1:1 but they had the rtw pieces I have been waiting for anyway that aren’t available at my home store so the bag was just a bonus
Click to expand...

periogirl28 said:
DH happened to go in and just look around for me while returning on a business trip. He never asked for any bags but the SA just straight out told him the spend for a Constance which she had at the back. Maybe it was a quiet day. That's the first and last time anyone has ever mentioned this to him and needless to say he walked out.
Click to expand...

Didn’t know HK airport has porchette and Kelly’s
Is this recently changed? Due to protests in town affecting store sales hence the airport stock to get rid of excess?

Nice to know anyways and will definitely try my luck when at the airport next time
 
  • Like
Reactions: thecorporette
#33,469
azukitea said:
Didn’t know HK airport has porchette and Kelly’s
Is this recently changed? Due to protests in town affecting store sales hence the airport stock to get rid of excess?

Nice to know anyways and will definitely try my luck when at the airport next time
Click to expand...
Not recent, but I'm guessing stock might be even better now given recent decline in travelers there. I've had luck there for a couple of years now.
 
  • Like
Reactions: obsessedwhermes and periogirl28
#33,472
Anthropolo said:
I found this treasure on a private online auction. There weren't many bidders and I eventually got it for "only" 1150usd. Can you believe it? A Crocodile Kelly 28 from before 1945 (as there is no date code)

This was the sellers main picture:
View attachment 4526942
It arrived a day later at my doorstep, and the first surprise was that the bag was still in its original dustbag. And the seller just packed it in a used Birkin 35 Box, which i was looking for anyway to store the Birkin I recently bought in. And people pay hundreds of dollars for just for a box like that online!

So I started off by conditioning the bag with some leather wax conditioner, and let it sit for a few hours:
View attachment 4526944
It had uniformly smoothened the leather a bit. I proceeded to polish the hardware. I'm including a before and after image of the hardware so you can see what difference it made:
View attachment 4526945
View attachment 4526946
Also some scales were basically falling off the sides, so I gently glued them back into place with a special leather glue (That can be removed with induced heat if needed at a later point). I did the same for seperated leather pieces, that probably had deteriorated glue residue inside and were once sewn together. But since some threading was lose, there were gaps and that was an easy fix to just glue them back closed. It can be sewn back together at a later point anyway if desired. But for now this is a totally sufficient solution. I tried to be as gentle as possible and not to leave and visible marks of touch-up all around.
View attachment 4526951
The final results speak for themselves. I think it still has the same "untouched" vintage feel to it but arranging it properly. Instead of leaving it to slouch like the previous owner did, I fulfilled the purpose of what a sellier Kelly is supposed to look like, and am now forcing it back into the original shape. If it was a retourne I would not have minded whatsoever, but this just looked wrong on a sellier. So these are the final shots of the almost 100 year old piece:
View attachment 4526953
View attachment 4526954
View attachment 4526958
View attachment 4526955
View attachment 4526956
View attachment 4526957

I hope you enjoyed this quick post of my very special find.
Click to expand...

What a find! This is stunning!
And you did such a good job on it. Wow!
 
#33,476
Meta said:
Not OP but that's the Etude Pour un Iris Arc en Ciel mousseline. It's from SS 2017. ;)
Click to expand...
ajaxbreaker said:
Beautiful, all of them! May I ask what is the scarf in the background? I'm not familiar with the design, it's gorgeous.
Click to expand...

Thank you!!!

@Meta is correct on the mousseline with the belt (Etude Pour un Iris Arc en Ciel) and the blue scarf with the Kelly is an Annie Faivre from a few years back "Tresors Retrouves".
 
#33,480
periogirl28 said:
Most airports stores do not receive B/K/C. HK airport is unusual in this regards. It has been for quite a while, a few HK friends have been offered bags while travelling out. Pretty sure they had to prespend.
Click to expand...
Was travelling out of HK on Monday - found a Dogon Recto Verso in noir (I've been looking for this for a while and the HK airport has plenty in different colours). Was offered a croc C but had to say no. I must say that the HK airport has the best offers in airports that I've been to so far!
 
  • Like
Reactions: obsessedwhermes, Phiona88, tlamdang08 and 1 other person
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top