With a price tag of $1845, the 8688 Classima Executives may send the lower budget watch-goers seeking a Baume & Mercier replica. I'm here to tell you that that's not the way to go! As the saying goes, "You get what you pay for".Baume & Mercier has its footprint set in watchmaking history dating back to 1830, although Paul Mercier established his name in the partnership in 1918.
The Classima Executives (8688) was released in 2011.
It features a round stainless steel case, measuring 42mm in diameter and 9.5mm thick, with an anti-reflective sapphire crystal dial window. This specific model comes with a 22mm wide brown leather band. It's white guilloche dial provides an excellent contract to the slim, dark blue hands and silver-toned Roman numeral hour indices. The outer ring of the face gives you an Arabic numeral minute ring at intervals of five.
The 12-o'clock position holds place to none other than the Baume & Mercier logo, the Greek letter PHI, symbolically referencing Leonardo da Vinci's 'divine proportion', which has been the bottom line of standards in the companies' watchmaking technique and design.Its most intriguing visual feature of course is the open window that gives you a glimpse into the inner-working of the precision and movement of the swiss automatic timekeeping. You get a glimpse of both the front and backsides of the watch.
This simple, yet elegantly designed timepiece is sure to attract attention and turn heads wherever you may be wearing it. Feel free to comment with your thoughts and opinions on this piece.
