Baume & Mercier Revives The Elegance of Yesteryears

Retro styling is perfectly suited to Baume & Mercier watches and judging by the success of the first Classima Executives retro launched in celebration of the brand’s 175th anniversary, it would be hard to say the contrary.

To carry on in this creative direction, the Baume & Mercier design studio has designed two new Classima Executives L retro models, of even greater originality. A strong desire to enhance the design of small watch making complications has contributed to the development of two pieces featuring distinguished aesthetics and technical quality. Two very extraordinary watches with a shared vintage spirit.

The Classima Executives L retro displays the perfect balance of touches of retro inspiration and a decisively contemporary allure. It houses a self-winding Dubois Dépraz mechanical movement and a small watch making complication: a regulator. This function first appeared in the 17th century and is considered to be the most accurate time instrument, by enabling the hours, minutes and seconds to be read separately.

In addition to its technical watch making attributes, the regulator with its individual counters makes an important contribution to the watch’s retro look and the dial’s distinctive design. The over-sized crown and generous use of crystal, so typical of the watches of the 50’s, have not been forgotten. The finesse of detail of the silvered Opalin dial combined with a bevelled flange confers the entire watch with its very own yesteryear elegance.

This Classima Executives L highlights all the characteristics of ideal proportions; the centre of the case back is engraved with the Greek letter Phi, the golden rectangle (rectangle whose length and width ratio is equal to the golden number: 1.618) and the infinite decimal numerals of the golden number that are inscribed along the outer edge.

A dash of refinement for an exceptional timepiece
A limited series of 176 pieces has also been created around the Classima Executives line to recall the brand’s 176 years of watch making. Nothing has been left to chance and the vintage spirit is present both in terms of design and choice of materials. Thus, the red gold watchcase was an obvious preference for a timepiece evoking the past.

This Classima Executives L retro red gold reflects a skilful dose of vintage styling and technical watch making characteristics. Its automatic Dubois Dépraz movement is doted with a jumping hour complication and confers retro appeal to the dial with an aperture at 12 o’clock and a minute counter. The combination of red gold and a black satin-finished sun décor dial accentuates the watch’s overall art-deco charm.

An exceptional piece in every way, the sapphire crystal case back reveals the entire watch movement. And that’s not all; the sapphire crystal comes engraved with the brand’s emblem – the Greek letter Phi and its golden number.

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