Baume Mercier Moa8604 Hampton Bracelet

Baume & Mercier Watch 8604 – WITH SERIAL NUMBERS – White Dial – Battery Operated Quartz Movement – Certificate of Authenticity – Steel Case & Bracelet – Scratch Resistant Sapphire Crystal – Manufacturer Box & Manual – 43.5mm x 29mm = 1 3/4″ X 1 1/8″ Case – 7″ Adjustable Bracelet – 50 Meters / 165 Feet Water Resistant – Deployment Buckle

The Baume & Mercier Men’s Hampton Swiss Bracelet Watch features a polished stainless steel design and clean white dial that complements most casual daytime and business attire. Hampton is Baume & Mercier’s icon watch and refers to the Hampton’s, located on Long Island, off New York, where the way of life exudes concordance and serenity. Halfway amid tradition and modernity, it is somewhat curved case hugs the wrist perfectly. Hamptons retro-contemporary design makes it a great classic of our time. Constructed with a stainless steel case, the watch includes a polished rectangular stainless steel bezel, and a stainless steel link bracelet secured with a deployment clasp. A scratch-resistant-sapphire window shields the white dial, which features silver-stud hour markers with Arabic numerals at three and nine o’clock. The dial likewise includes slim black minute markers, silver-tone watch hands, and a discrete date calendar at the six o’clock position. Featuring Swiss-quartz movement, the timepiece is water immune 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 traditionalisti 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 outstanding lover of the arts and in 1918 they produced 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 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 proportionality 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 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 give rise to 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 produced as a blend of watchmaking tradition and contemporary design. And the company still lives by the primary slogan of the Baume brothers when they started Baume Freres: “Accept only perfection, only fabricate watches of the most eminent quality.”