Baume & Mercier continues to be increasing lately having a spate of recent and technically ingenious watches. This Swiss brand is showing everyone around you that if this involves the watchmaking industry, they’ve the entire expertise. From chronographs to tourbillons, Baume & Mercier is doing everything. This season, the company has launched an entirely new watch with a few quite interesting complications.

Presenting the Baume & Mercier Retrograde Date Automatic. This formal watch is constructed from solid, hypo-allergenic stainless also it has a not excessively large situation dimension of 43mm. Any more compact and also the retrograde dial layout just wouldn’t work. The steel is polished, that also contributes to its formal aesthetic.

The situation back is mainly stainless having a large circular aperture produced from azure very which with the individual may admire the self-winding movement. The movement utilized on this watch is formally a Soprod 9094 but it’s according to an ETA 2892 using the calendar modules attached. The movement is solid and has a energy reserve of 40 hrs.

The dial is whitened also it features the signature Clifton hour marker setup with Arabic numeral representing the even amounts and slender teardrop indexes marking another positions. Both your hands and hour markers are gold well developed and therefore are completely without lume. Around the flange is an extremely conservative minute track in blue print. In the 3 position may be the retrograde date display. This can be a bold step from Baume & Mercier because it is infamously hard to incorporate large retrograde shows effortlessly into dial designs, particularly if that isn’t the only real complication. There’s a days each week counter in the 9 position along with a energy reserve indicator in retrograde at 6, tossed in permanently measure.

The Baume & Mercier Clifton Retrograde Date Automatic is finished having a brown alligator leather strap. The cost with this watch is $5,700, which causes it to be the 2nd most costly watch within the Clifton collection. Probably the most costly watch for the reason that collection may be the Clifton Flying Tourbillon, which we’ll review here over a couple of days.