Check price Baume Mercier Men's 8853 Classima XXL Chronograph Black Dial Watch

Check price Baume Mercier Men's 8853 Classima XXL Chronograph Black Dial Watch

Product Description

Located in Geneva, Baume & Mercier is a modern company dedicated to perfecting fashionable Baume & Mercier watches that are true to traditional horological values. PVD coated stainless steel case, Black rubber strap, Deployant buckle, Screw down crown, Black dial, Luminous hands and hour markers, Small seconds subdial at the 9 o'clock position, Chronograph features (minutes, and seconds), Date window at the 6 o'clock position, Scratch resistant anti-reflection sapphire crystal, Swiss automatic movement, Water resistant to 200 meters/ 660 feet.

List Price:	$5,490.00
Price:	$3,299.00
as of Thu, 14 Mar 2013 03:57:53 GMT

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #48452 in Watches
• Brand: Baume & Mercier
• Model: 8853
• Dimensions: 5.12" h x 5.12" w x 5.12" l, 2.10 pounds
• Band material: Rubber
• Bezel material: stainless-steel
• Case material: stainless-steel
• Clasp type: deployment-buckle
• Dial color: black
• Dial window material: antireflective-sapphire
• Movement type: swiss-automatic
• Water-resistant to 660 feet

Features

• Chronograph
• Round case
• Deployant clasp
• Luminous hands; Date
• Water-resistant to 660 feet (200 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."