Best Baume & Mercier Men's 8731 Classima Automatic Strap Watch

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #14078 in Watches
• Color: Silver
• Brand: Baume & Mercier
• Model: 8731
• Dimensions: 5.12" h x 5.12" w x 5.12" l, 2.10 pounds
• Band material: Leather
• Bezel material: stainless-steel
• Case material: stainless-steel
• Clasp type: deployment-clasp-with-buckle
• Dial color: silver
• Dial window material: scratch-resistant-sapphire
• Movement type: swiss-automatic
• Water-resistant to 99 feet

Features

• Brown Leather Strap
• Scratch-resistant sapphire crystal
• Silver Guilloche Dial ; Exhibition Caseback
• Hours, Minutes, Seconds and Date at the 3 o'clock Position
• Water-resistant to 99 feet (30 M)

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The eye-catching elegance of the Baume & Mercier Men's Classima Automatic Strap Watch features a clean white face with electric blue accents for increased functionality and style. Classima Executives watches are the heritage of Baume & Mercier's watch-making know-how. They offer a style derived from sobriety, a classical, elegant look. Classima Executives reinterprets the brand's watch-making tradition with mechanical movements with small, useful complications and refined finishings. Constructed with a stainless steel case, the timepiece includes a round stainless steel bezel, and a brown leather wristband secured with a deployment-clasp-with-buckle. A scratch-resistant-sapphire window shields the textured silver dial, which features silver-dash hour markers, slim minute markers, and Arabic numeral indexes at five-minute intervals. The dial also includes a date calendar at three o'clock and electric blue watch hands. Featuring Swiss-automatic movement, the watch is water resistant to 99 feet (30 M).

The Baume & Mercier Story

Baume & Mercier has a rich history in storied tradition of Swiss watchmaking, now over 170 years. In 1830, brothers Louis Victor and Pierre-Joseph-Celestin Baume established the Baume Freres Watch firm in the Swiss Jura region--the heart of the Swiss watch industry. As business flourished in Europe a grandson of the founder, William Baume met Paul Mercier, a great lover of the arts and in 1918 they created a business partnership. The contrast of the rigorous, precise Baume with the artistic, free thinking Mercier fused form and function to create the traditions of perfection, quality, and luxury that still exist today.

In 1964, Baume & Mercier registered the Greek letter PHI as its brand logo, and it continues to be present on all Baume & Mercier designs. A symbol of the golden ratio and Leonard de Vinci's theory of proportion, it represents aesthetic elegance based on "divine proportions" that remain the brand's cardinal values.

the designers at Baume & Mercier utilize the goldmine of the company's over 175 years of watch-making history--from the oval of a crown to the graphics of a dial--to create the aesthetic contours of new timepieces. Inspired by a rectangular pink gold watch introduced by Baume & Mercier in 1960, the signature Hampton line of watches was created as a blend of watchmaking tradition and contemporary design. And the company still lives by the original slogan of the Baume brothers when they started Baume Freres: "Accept only perfection, only manufacture watches of the highest quality."