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Hermès Birkin 25 Grizzly Gris Caillou/Étoupe Veau Doblis & Swift Palladium Hardware

Sale price$45,000.00 USD

Hermès Birkin 25 Grizzly Gris Caillou/Étoupe Veau Doblis & Swift Palladium Hardware

Birkin 25 Grizzly in Gris Caillou Veau Doblis with Étoupe Swift trim and Palladium hardware. Grizzly is the Hermès construction that pairs Veau Doblis suede on the body panels with smooth Swift leather at the flap, handles, sangles, and reinforcement points. The architectural logic is functional: suede gives the body its matte velvet hand and depth-of-color that smooth leather cannot replicate, while Swift handles the wear-zones where suede would not survive friction. Gris Caillou is the cooler pebble grey in the Hermès neutral spectrum, with the Doblis suede rendering it deeper and more atmospheric than the same color reads in smooth leather. Étoupe is the warmer grey-taupe that serves as the house's most enduring neutral, applied here at the trim to soften the cool Gris Caillou body. Palladium hardware reads cool against the grey palette without competing with the suede surface. Z stamp places production at 2021.

Condition: 1 – Pristine
Stamp: Z (2021)
Color: Gris Caillou (body) / Étoupe (trim)
Leather: Veau Doblis suede (body) / Swift (trim)
Hardware: Palladium
Includes: Full set
Dimensions: 25 x 20 x 13 cm | 9.8" x 7.9" x 5.1"
Handle Drop: 9 cm | 3.5"

Collector's Insight: Grizzly construction appears intermittently across Hermès production cycles, with suede sourcing and atelier handling requirements limiting output relative to smooth-leather equivalents. Gris Caillou paired with Étoupe is among the most collected neutral Grizzly combinations because the cool-warm grey balance reads as deliberately styled rather than monochrome. The Birkin 25 size in Grizzly construction is particularly limited since the smaller scale renders the suede-to-Swift ratio more visually concentrated than larger formats.

Resale Insight: Doblis suede Birkins trade to a narrower buyer pool than smooth-leather equivalents but one that pays a premium for the texture and material rarity. Pristine condition at four years post-production is uncommon, since suede registers wear and storage marks more readily than smooth leather, which means qualifying examples in this configuration are increasingly difficult to source.


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