Aka-e on Dials

 In Slim d’Hermès Koma Kurabe and Slim d’Hermès La femme aux semelles de vent from Hermes it is for the first time that French porcelain has been combined with the Japanese art of Aka-e. Limited to 12 pieces each, the timepieces feature an enameled biscuit-fired dial produced in Paris by the ateliers of Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres. The dial is hand-painted in different shades of red and ocher and augmented with decorative gold by 70 year-old Japanese master artist Buzan Fukushima.