Baume & Mercier Men’s 8442 Hampton

Baume Mercier Mens 8442 Hampton

Baume & Mercier Hampton series model 8749 men’s watch, mechanical-automatic movement, 200m by 660ft water resistant, 37.7 by 45mm case size, deployment clasp, steel case, black dial, fixed bezel, steel strap, and date and world time functions.

The Baume & Mercier Men’s Hampton Square Titanium Watch showcases a superior titanium design and a silver-tone subdial for precise timekeeping. 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 concord and serenity. Halfway amongst tradition and modernity, it is somewhat curved case hugs the wrist perfectly. Hamptons retro-contemporary design makes it a outstanding classic of our time. Constructed with a titanium case, the timepiece includes a square titanium bezel, and a black rubber wristband secured with a push-button-deployment clasp. A scratch-resistant-sapphire window shields the black dial, which features silver-tone Arabic numeral hour markers, slim minute indexes, and luminous watch hands. The dial likewise includes a subdial at six o’clock and a date calendar at the 12 o’clock position. Featuring Swiss-automatic movement, the timepiece is water immune 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 outstanding lover of the arts and in 1918 they formulated a business partnership. The contrast of the rigorous, precise Baume with the artistic, free thinking Mercier fused form and function to construct 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 implement 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 produced as a blend of watchmaking tradition and contemporary design. And the company still lives by the introductory slogan of the Baume brothers when they started Baume Freres: “Accept only perfection, only invent watches of the most eminent quality.”