{"product_id":"hermes-hac-haut-a-courroies-50-gris-perle-endless-road-special-edition-2019","title":"Hermès HAC Haut à Courroies 50 Gris Perle Endless Road Special Edition 2019","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHermès HAC Haut à Courroies 50 — Gris Perle \"Endless Road\" Special Edition, 2019\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThere is a category of Hermès object that transcends the conventional vocabulary of luxury goods collecting — pieces that are not simply rare bags in desirable colours, but singular artistic statements produced in quantities so limited that their appearance on the secondary market constitutes a genuine event. The \u003cstrong\u003eHAC 50 \"Endless Road\" Special Edition from 2019\u003c\/strong\u003e belongs entirely to this category. It is, without qualification, one of the most exceptional pieces Élégance du Luxe has ever offered.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Endless Road\" — The Edition\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eEndless Road\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Hermès limited-edition HAC produced as part of the house's ongoing dialogue between its leather goods heritage and the world of artistic expression. The edition takes its name and its imagery from the open roads of California — a landscape rendered across the bag's body in a sweeping, multi-layered composition of mountains, sky, highway, and horizon in a palette of blues, teals, powder, and cream that sits against the bag's \u003cstrong\u003eGris Perle\u003c\/strong\u003e leather ground with the precision of a silk scarf printed directly onto the finest calfskin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe imagery is not printed — it is \u003cstrong\u003ehand-applied leather appliqué\u003c\/strong\u003e: individual pieces of coloured leather, cut and placed with the patience and precision of the Hermès atelier at its most committed, building up the Californian landscape in layers of material rather than ink. Each mountain form, each band of sky, each strip of highway is its own piece of leather, applied individually to the Gris Perle body and finished to a seamless, unified composition. The result is a bag that reads from a distance as a watercolour painting and reveals, on close inspection, an engineering achievement of extraordinary complexity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGris Perle — The Perfect Ground\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGris Perle\u003c\/strong\u003e — pearl grey — is the only possible base colour for this edition: a pale, luminous grey with the cool, almost iridescent quality of natural pearl, providing a ground against which the Endless Road's blue palette can achieve its maximum depth and visual contrast without the clinical bleaching effect that pure white would introduce. The colour reads as lighter or cooler depending on the light — in morning light almost white, in evening light a soft, warm grey — creating a bag that changes character across the day in a way that no single-colour Hermès leather piece can.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNew and Unused — Complete Original Box Set\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis example is \u003cstrong\u003enew and unused\u003c\/strong\u003e, with only the minimal signs of handling that a delicate light-coloured piece inevitably acquires between boutique and collector. It is presented as a \u003cstrong\u003ecomplete original full set\u003c\/strong\u003e: the iconic \u003cstrong\u003eHermès orange box\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003edustbag\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003esmall dustbags\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eall accessories\u003c\/strong\u003e, and the \u003cstrong\u003eoriginal booklet\u003c\/strong\u003e documenting the edition. The orange box in the second photograph — the full Hermès presentation — tells the story of a piece that has been treated from the first moment with the care its significance demands.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhy This Piece Stands Alone\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eÉlégance du Luxe has offered HAC pieces across every format, leather, colour, and era in the course of this inventory — from 1983 Ardennes in two-tone construction to Porosus Crocodile in Noir, from Flag canvas to Permabrass hardware. This piece stands above all of them. Not because the others are not exceptional — many of them are — but because the Endless Road Special Edition is a fundamentally different class of object: a bag that required an artistic vision, an atelier's most skilled hands, and a decision by Hermès to produce something that would never be produced again. It is, in the most literal sense of the phrase, a work of functional art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition \u0026amp; Authenticity\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eAuthenticated through Élégance du Luxe's rigorous multi-step verification process and offered with our full Authenticity Guarantee.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"[li_\u0026amp;]:mb-0 [li_\u0026amp;]:mt-1 [li_\u0026amp;]:gap-1 [\u0026amp;:not(:last-child)_ul]:pb-1 [\u0026amp;:not(:last-child)_ol]:pb-1 list-disc flex flex-col gap-1 pl-8 mb-3\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eModel:\u003c\/strong\u003e Haut à Courroies (HAC) 50 — Endless Road Special Edition\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBase Colour:\u003c\/strong\u003e Gris Perle (pearl grey)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eArtwork:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hand-applied leather appliqué — Californian highway landscape in blues, teals, powder \u0026amp; cream\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTechnique:\u003c\/strong\u003e Individual coloured leather pieces, hand-cut and applied — not printed\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eHardware:\u003c\/strong\u003e Polished Palladium (PHW)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 50 cm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eYear:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2019\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eEdition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Limited — Endless Road Special Edition\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New and unused — minimal handling marks on delicate base colour only\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSet:\u003c\/strong\u003e Complete — original Hermès orange box, dustbag, small dustbags, accessories \u0026amp; booklet\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eClosure:\u003c\/strong\u003e Double-strap with padlock\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eOrigin:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hermès Paris\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Hermès","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56586783392075,"sku":"EDL-0005","price":29000.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0866\/3200\/5963\/files\/BL5A8612.jpg?v=1774698726","url":"https:\/\/www.eleganceduluxe.com\/products\/hermes-hac-haut-a-courroies-50-gris-perle-endless-road-special-edition-2019","provider":"Élégance du Luxe","version":"1.0","type":"link"}