Baume Mercier Mercier_watch Watch Moa08487

Baume Mercier Mercier_watch Watch Moa08487

Polished/stain-finished steel, rotating bezel case with a black vulcanized rubber bracelet. Unidirectional bezel. Black dial with luminous hands and dot hour markers. Roman numeral marks the 12 o’clock position. Date displays at the 6 o’clock position. Automatic movement. Scratch immune sapphire crystal. Screw-down crown. Case diameter: 40 mm. Case thickness: 7 mm. Triple folding security clasp. Water immune at 100 meters / 330 feet. Additional Info: superluminova tIPped hands, superluminova-coated roman numeral and indexes. Baume and Mercier Riviera Mens Watch 8780.

Showcasing a handsome black-rubber-and-stainless-steel construction, the Baume & Mercier Men’s Riviera Divers Rubber Watch is a comfortable timepiece and superior diving accessory. Designed with a stainless steel case, the timepiece includes a bold black dodecagonal unidirectional bezel, and a black rubber wristband secured with a push-button-deployment clasp. A scratch-resistant-sapphire window shields the black dial, which features luminous dot hour markers with a Roman numeral index at the 12 o’clock position. The dial likewise includes slim white minute indexes, luminous blue watch hands, and a date calendar at six o’clock. This Swiss-automatic-movement timepiece is water immune to 660 feet (200 M).

In 1973 the Riviera revolutionized the aesthetic watch-making characteristics by being equipped with a dodecagonal case–12 sides for 12 hours, or the geometric expression of a clever dose of innovation, classicism and creativity. Today a highly contemporary design that highlights the pure lines of this legendary watch, indissociable from Baume & Mercier’s rich history.

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 conventional 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 developed a business partnership. The contrast of the rigorous, precise Baume with the artistic, free thinking Mercier fused form and function to manufacture the traditions of perfection, quality, and lavishness that still subsist today.

In 1964, Baume & Mercier registered the Greek letter PHI as it is brand logo, and it proceeds 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 stay the brand’s cardinal values.

the designers at Baume & Mercier employ 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 formulate 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 invented as a blend of watchmaking tradition and contemporary design. And the company still lives by the initial slogan of the Baume brothers when they started Baume Freres: “Accept only perfection, only invent watches of the most eminent quality.”