Hermes believes the Basel Watch Fair this year Arceau Millefiori millefiori watches for everyone left a deep impression on the watch dial process from northeastern France Alsace Lorraine area a little-known town of Pays de Bitche, this The region is home to French crystal makers, with world famous brands such as Lalique and Baccarat, where the history of the Cristalleries de Saint-Louis dates back to 1586 years. French King Louis XV in 1767 to give the crystal here to create the prestigious Royal Special Crystal status, made here for the royal family to enjoy crystal products. The following years the crystal replaced the glass tableware products, it was even named as Saint Louis royal crystal workshop. Glass paperweight Some people may have some understanding of the glass art, and even seen the famous glass paperweight works. "Millefiori" represents the meaning of a thousand flowers in Italian (mille is the meaning of a thousand, fiori is the meaning of flowers), although as a word is included in 1849, thousands of flowers actually appeared before 1849 . The extant paper-town craftsmanship is invaluable, and traditional crystal makers spend a lot of energy in order to make the process an overrun. Although there were a lot of paper-based artworks at that time, the small crystal sculpture made by only four small workshops was excellent. Capture a thousand beautiful flowers When Hermès Crystal Papertown team found that to start the almost lost process, Xavier Zimmermann prompts them to do a good job of the first cylindrical chiffon template, the template can be in the circular crystal sphere dotted with beautiful clusters of flowers. Connect all the finished flower stems together, then remove the excess and finally get a thousand flower discs. When the crystal artiste removes the crystal that has been combined with the pattern and is in a molten state, the second craftsman holds another blowpipe attached to the other end of the molten crystal, and quickly pulls out a few meters long fine crystal mandrel before the crystal or enamel cools down , Its diameter is only a few millimeters, and then cut into sections. The molded stem is then cut into small pieces of about 10 mm each, and the crystal craftsman who specializes in producing thousands of flowers is erected in the iron pot to form a flower bed pattern. These multicolored stems are covered in layers of crystal and enamel, and different shades make up a rich pattern. Burning flower bed design for the furnace temperature requirements entirely by the crystal craftsman with the feeling, had superb artisans applauded. Crystal casting In order to complete the paper town, crystal craftsmen continue to add well-made stem until it becomes a sphere. The dial of the Arceau Millefiori watch is not as simple as it used to be to form a sphere, because in the end we needed a miniature paper dial. After finishing this mini paperweight, the craftsmen needed to send her to a German gemstone cutting specialist with high cutting accuracy, all of which had to be 0.6mm thick. All this may sound easier, but the real production of molding is the need for extremely advanced technology, once the finished product is not required, all aspects must be repeated. Zimmermann pointed out that the production process is very difficult, more than 50% of the products do not meet the standards of St. Louis Crystal Workshop. As a result, those who have undergone rigorous testing of the crystal dial has become very precious.