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Hermès Layer 2. After a ~45% fall (peak €2,957 to ~€1,627), the moat is retested before price: intact, five clean, one amber (resale ~1.4x, barbell). Decline is mostly cyclical: currency, Middle East, China proxy selling, de-rating from a ~68x bubble peak to ~38x on flat earnings, so multiple compression, not impairment. Spine: if the moat holds, earnings compound and price recovers. Plan: two-thirds now, one-third for a ~27x tail; 29 July print a mechanical derisk checkpoint

Here's the summary of the document, at 483 characters: Hermès manufactures scarcity as policy: supply grows ~6-7%/yr, always behind demand, so it raises prices yearly without losing volume. The moat rests on a permanent drive to signal status, an allocation culture (bags earned, not bought) rivals cannot copy, and H51 family control locking in the discipline. History confirms it: Burberry, Gucci, Coach and Prada each lost pricing power by breaking that discipline. The one re