Review: Baume & Mercier's New Chronometer Is One of the Most Impressive Watches In Its Price ...

In 2017, Baumer & Mercier became the first watchmaker in the Richemont group to offer a watch with a silicon escapement, the gold-cased, hand-winding Clifton Manual 1830 Sure enough this limited-edition watch represented a major first for one of the world's largest watchmaking conglomerates, and it paved the way for this: the Clifton Baumatic COSC The Baumatic uses the same silicon escapement as the Clifton 1830, but adds automatic winding and ditches the gold case for one of stainless steel.

Baume & Mercier claims the watch can run long past the watch industry's standard three-to-five-year service interval The Rest of the Baumatic is fairly handsome and well-proportioned, too, but it's the movement and the performance that it brings at this price that makes the Baumatic one of the most exciting watch releases of the year Who They're For: Baume & Mercier is firmly rooted as an entry-level luxury brand and is likely trying to court newbie luxury watch owners.

The entry-level luxury watch field is a crowded one, and so buyers interested in technical specs will be most drawn to Baumatic COSC Watch Out For: I understand why Baume & Mercier wants to advertise the COSC-accuracy and super-long power reserve - I've made it pretty clear they're two of the most impressive aspects of the watch - but the branding at six o'clock is a bitextra "I don't think Baume & Mercier's mission is done.

They have a good-performing modern automatic mechanical movement in a watch designed to look like something from yesterday I think Baume & Mercier can push themselves to come up with contemporary watches designed to fit movements such as the BM12-1975A." - Ariel Adams, A Blog to Watch. . Source