Hermès Horloger CEO Laurent Dordet talks about the brand's new launches and bringing fun and creativity to the watch universe
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In the year of the pandemic, luxury brand Hermès reported a consolidated revenue of €6,389 million, a decrease limited to about 6 percent at constant exchange rates. About 3 percent of the turnover comes from Hermès’s watchmaking division, set up in 1978 in Bienne (Brugg) at the heart of the Swiss watch industry, and which in recent years has increasingly been involved in developing and producing its own movements, combining them with the unique aesthetic of Hermès.
On the sidelines of Watches and Wonders 2021 held in Geneva, Laurent Dordet, who has been with Hermès for over 25 years and who took over as CEO of Hermès Horloger in 2015, speaks to Forbes India about the brand’s new launches and older iconic watches, the relevance of watches in the digital age and the playfulness Hermès brings to the telling of time. Edited excerpts from an interview: