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Within its Arceau Millefiori (meaning ‘a thousand flowers’) models, Hermès encapsulates an unusual encounter between watchmaking and glassmaking. These watches, beating to the tune of Swiss mechanical calibres, are lit up by dials and covers inspired by 19th century paperweights, crafted by the Cristalleries royales de Saint-Louis where all begins with the glass-melting furnace known as a pot furnace. The gatherer or ball-maker dips a punty into the mouth of these pots, each containing a colour of crystal or enamel, and twirls the molten matter to form a homogenous bubble-free mass known as a gob. The punty is passed on from hand to hand, from breath to breath and from workshop to workshop, until a monochrome crystal sprue is formed which will serve to create the canes that will in turn give rise to the ‘millefiori’ motif, meaning ‘a thousand flowers’.
