Hermès

Hermès Kelly Pochette HSS Black/graphite Shiny Alligator Gold Hardware

Shiny Alligator · Gold Hardware

Unworn, £49,500, in stock. Black/Graphite Shiny Alligator, Gold (GHW). Authenticated in London and delivered insured anywhere in the UK.

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The piece in detail

A Kelly Pochette in a Horseshoe Stamp commission, rendered in shiny alligator with gold hardware. The two-tone pairing here is Black and Graphite — a deliberate, considered choice rather than a standard boutique configuration. W stamp, brand new condition. Within Hermès, the Kelly Pochette occupies a particular position: it is the evening-scaled interpretation of one of the house's most enduring silhouettes, reduced to its essentials. It carries what a considered evening demands — nothing superfluous — and transitions without effort into daytime when the occasion is right. It is the piece reached for when a full Kelly would be too much and a simple clutch too little. Black alligator is the more familiar of the two skins here; Graphite is where the commission earns its character. In shiny alligator, Graphite resolves into a cool, almost pewter tone — neither silver nor charcoal, but something with genuine depth and a faint luminosity when light moves across the scales. Against the Black panels, it reads as a tonal contrast rather than a colour one: two darks in conversation, each made more precise by the other. The combination is formal without being severe. Gold hardware anchors the palette, its warmth preventing the dark leathers from reading as austere. This piece is held at JULL's Chelsea Harbour showroom, and private viewings are available by appointment.

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