Hermès Has Big Watchmaking Ambitions. The Cult of the Birkin Is Getting in the Way.
Many people only buy the brand’s watches to boost their chances of getting a handbag
Nothing says “I only bought this to get a Birkin” like an Hermès RMS 0.34%increase; green up pointing triangle watch.
At least that is a perception the French brand is fighting as it tries to be taken seriously as a maker of high-end mechanical watches. Trends in the secondhand market show why that will be challenging.
Hermès’s watch unit has been one of its fastest-growing divisions in recent years and has almost tripled in size since 2019. Although sales were weaker in 2025, the brand sold more than half a billion euros of watches.
That is impressive, but Hermès watches are still sometimes seen as Birkin bait—products that shoppers only buy to be offered one of its in-demand handbags.
Although the brand never spells it out explicitly, there is a perception among Birkin collectors that they must spend heavily on other Hermès goods to be offered one of the bags. Dropping tens of thousands of dollars on a watch is a good way to curry favor with sales assistants who allocate Birkins to clients.
High numbers of brand-new Hermès watches end up listed on secondhand websites. This could be a sign that shoppers immediately resell them to claw back some of their cash.
The largest luxury resale platform in the U.S., The RealReal, has sold three times as many pristine Hermès watches on its site over the past five years as Chanel ones, despite both brands’ selling roughly the same number of watches annually, based on Morgan Stanley estimates.
The reseller has sold 33% more pristine Cartier watches than Hermès over the same period. However, Cartier’s annual watch production is 10 times as large as that of Hermès.
The amount of supply on secondhand sites means Hermès watches don’t hold their value. Mint-condition Hermès watches on The RealReal have resold at 41% of their original sticker price on average so far in 2026. By comparison, a person who resells a pristine Rolex will get all of his or her money back, and can make a profit on scarce models like the Daytona. A mint Cartier watch recoups two-thirds of its original price.
What’s more, the resale value of Hermès has also been moving in the wrong direction lately. Four years ago, one of the brand’s mint-condition watches fetched 51% of its original value at resale, 10 percentage points higher than today. Compare that with Cartier. Its value retention has climbed 15 percentage points over the same period.
Hermès has spent more than two decades and tens of millions of dollars building credibility as a serious watchmaker.
In the early 2000s, the brand treated watches as an entry-level product to attract new customers. Hermès was churning out around 280,000 watches a year, according to Oliver Müller, founder of Swiss watch consultancy LuxeConsult. Most of the watches were quartz and priced below 1,000 Swiss francs, or about $1,230 at current exchange rates.
Then, in 2006, Hermès bought a 25% stake in Vaucher Manufacture Fleurier, a Swiss maker of mechanical watch movements. A few years later it bought Nateber SA, a maker of dials, and watch manufacturer Joseph Erard Holding. The brand is currently expanding its Noirmont watchmaking facility in Switzerland.
Over the years, Hermès has drastically reduced its annual watch production by around 75% to boost exclusivity. Average prices are much higher. Hermès now sells some very high-end mechanical watches, such as a men’s Slim d’Hermès Quantieme Perpetual that costs more than $50,000.
The brand makes “extraordinary pocket watches” and beautiful enamel-painted dials, according to LuxeConsult’s Müller. “They do have a certain kind of legitimacy now in watchmaking.”
But the circus around the Birkin hurts Hermès’s watchmaking ambitions. Serious collectors monitor resale prices. A watch that loses most of its value as soon as you walk out of the store is a tough sell to connoisseurs. And anyone who genuinely likes Hermès watch designs can pick up a brand-new one in the secondhand market at 60% off. So why bother paying full price?
The watch industry has an interesting dilemma at the moment. Brands that have the most clout as mechanical watchmakers, like Audemars Piguet and Patek Philippe, would love to sell more watches to women. But they aren’t having much success. Audemars’s boss, Ilaria Resta, said only 20% of the brand’s sales are to women, in line with the Swiss watchmaking industry’s average.
Luxury fashion houses do a better job of designing watches that appeal to women, but they lack credibility with sophisticated watch collectors. Chanel, Hermès and Louis Vuitton are all trying to change that by investing in supply chains for mechanical movements and hiring watchmaking talent. Bernard Arnault’s youngest son, Jean Arnault, heads up Louis Vuitton’s Geneva-based watchmaking unit La Fabrique du Temps, as well as LVMH’s overall watch division.
Hermès is the luxury brand that is arguably making the best attempt of it. Unfortunately, Birkin hunting is undercutting some of the good work.
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Affordable Luxury Is Gaining Ground in Department Stores
"Contemporary and premium tiers now dominate the segment map," according to the International Association of Department Stores.
ALL ACCESS: Reflecting how luxury remains under pressure, contemporary and premium brands are now dominating women’s fashion floors, according to a new report from the International Association of Department Stores, or IADS.
According to its tallies, the contemporary and premium segment accounts for 31 percent of the women’s fashion business, high-street and mid-range brands 22 percent and “advanced contemporary” 21 percent.
At Tryano in Abu Dhabi, for example, operator Chalhoub cited the 400 to 800 euro price bracket as attracting the strongest sell-throughs.
Meanwhile, El Palacio de Hierro in Mexico has redirected part of its open-to-buy to affordable luxury and entry price points to offset declines at the higher end.
Across markets as diverse as the U.S., Germany, Ukraine and the Middle East, “the same names recur among members’ bestsellers: Sandro, Maje, Max Mara and Self-Portrait in contemporary; Victoria Beckham, Ami Paris and Jacquemus higher up the ladder,” the IADS said.
For denim, the department store body cited a diverging picture, with denim declining in some markets, while experience “explosive growth in the U.S. market, with price increases absorbed without customer resistance.”
The IADS recommends “embracing fit diversity… so that customers feel they need one of each style rather than a replacement for the last.”
Women’s fashion continues to grow in the online channel, generating about 22 percent of department store sales in 2025 versus 20 percent in the prior year.
IADS members represent more than 563 stores in 32 countries.
Oura is going public, but these smart ring companies are coming for its crown
The smart ring market is getting crowded, and Oura isn’t waiting around to see what happens next: it officially filed to go public on September 3.
The company is killing it right now. The Finnish outfit’s revenue nearly doubled to $1.21 billion for the nine months ended June 30. Oura said it sold 3.6 million rings over the past year, and that it has around 5 million paid members. The company’s move to go public follows the recent launch of the Oura Ring 5, its slimmest and lightest ring yet.
But while Oura has largely dominated the smart ring market for years, rivals are emerging from all corners to dethrone it, each betting on a different angle. For example, French company Circular announced this week that its upcoming ring will allow users to tap to pay with their ring, while Chinese company RingConn debuted a ring this year that added haptic vibrations.
Indian company Ultrahuman separately announced this week that it raised $70 million with backing from Qualcomm’s venture arm as it looks to build a ring that it says will be able to run software directly on the device and eventually power everything from AI interactions to games.
The race to beat Oura isn’t just about enhanced health and sleep tracking anymore. It’s now about seeing which company can cram the most smartphone-like features into a two-gram titanium band before someone ends up shipping a ring that lets you doomscroll TikTok or answer calls or do your taxes. I mean, we’re already seeing smart rings with screens, like the Pebble Halo, although it’s currently only available in India, as well as rings that promise touchpads, like the Dreame Ring.
The irony is that the initial appeal with smart rings was that they made technology and health tracking feel less intrusive than devices like smartwatches and smartphones, given you can step away from a screen while still keeping tabs on your health. With the way things are headed in the smart ring industry, though, we may just end up slipping mini smartphones on our fingers.
All of this is to say that the smart ring market is getting increasingly confusing, so we’ve rounded up the most notable contenders vying for Oura’s crown.
Ultrahuman
Image Credits:Ultrahuman
Earlier this year, Ultrahuman unveiled its third-generation smart ring, the $479 Ring Pro, which is set to begin shipping in the U.S. in mid-September. Ultrahuman’s U.S. business was disrupted in October 2025 after the U.S. International Trade Commission ruled in Oura’s favor in a patent dispute. The ruling prevented the company from importing new ring inventory into the country, so Ultrahuman developed the Ring Pro with a redesigned form factor in order to circumvent Oura’s patent.
The Ring Pro features a redesigned heart-rate sensing system aimed at improving signal quality during sleep, along with a new dual-core processor that enables more accurate data collection and greater on-device processing. As noted earlier, Ultrahuman looks to be more ambitious with future rings as it aims to go beyond sleep and health tracking.
Circular
Image Credits:Circular /
Circular’s upcoming Ring 3 series, which consists of a Pro model and a Slim option, is expected to launch early next year. Both of the smart rings will feature an integrated NFC chip for contactless payments and on-finger vibrations that can be used for silent wake-up alarms, reminders, vital health alerts, and more.
The Ring 3 Pro features a slimmer design than its predecessor and comes with FDA-cleared ECG for AFib detection, blood pressure trend tracking, glucose tracking, advanced sleep analysis, and comprehensive biometric monitoring.
Pricing for the upcoming rings is not yet available.
RingConn
Image Credits:RingConn
The RingConn Gen 3, which launched in May and starts at $349, features vascular health insights that use sensor data from the ring to assess changes in vascular strain over time after calibration with externally measured blood pressure values.
It also tracks heart rate, blood oxygen saturation, sleep, activity, and stress, among other metrics. Additionally, it features vibration alerts for health changes, sedentary reminders, and low battery. Unlike Circular, which leans on haptics to make its ring more communicative, RingConn mostly sticks to vibration as a health-alert mechanism.
Samsung
Image Credits:Samsung
Samsung became the first major tech giant to launch a smart ring in 2024. The Galaxy Ring, which costs $399, is arguably the strongest contender for anyone already invested in Samsung’s ecosystem of devices.
Compared with other smart rings on the market, the Galaxy Ring is relatively basic when it comes to advanced health and sleep tracking. It lacks features such as sleep apnea detection, which are offered by RingConn, Oura, and Ultrahuman, as well as AFib detection, which is available on Circular and RingConn smart rings.
Dreame
Image Credits:Dreame /
Dreame, a relatively new entrant to the smart ring market, unveiled a ring earlier this year with haptic alerts for alarms, calls, messages, and more, along with a small touchpad that lets you do things like skip a song or snap a photo on your phone. It’s also said to offer heart rate tracking, blood oxygen monitoring, heart rate variability insights, sleep analysis, and more.
Pricing and availability have yet to be announced.