The Baume & Mercier Clifton 1892 Flying Tourbillon Watch Review


The Baume & Mercier Clifton 1892 Flying Tourbillon Watch Review

The Baume & Mercier Clifton 1892 Flying Tourbillon Watch Review


Although Baume & Mercier is better noted for its less expensive choices

The Baume & Mercier Clifton 1892 Flying Tourbillon Watch Review
The company isn't restricted to fundamental entry-level watches. At SIHH 2014, Baume & Mercier introduced its first tourbillon watch, the Clifton 1892 Flying Tourbillon, mixing the clean type of another Clifton watches having a more exclusive complication. The name is really a nod towards the historic Baume & Mercier tourbillon pocket watch that offered as inspiration and also the watch does indeed bring something unpredicted towards the Clifton line-up. Here's a closer inspection only at that horological spanner.

Baume & Mercier first introduced the Clifton collection this past year. The concept was to utilize a simple mid-century aesthetic to produce highly-wearable and well-priced watches that attract individuals searching for something vintage-inspired. Probably the most complicated watch in the inaugural collection would be a triple calendar with moonphase which year saw both a chronograph along with a retrograde date put into this mixture.

But, probably the most complicated Clifton up 

To now may be the Clifton 1892 Flying Tourbillon. This is actually the first modern Baume & Mercier tourbillon and also the first tourbillon watch in the brand. The muse with this piece is really a historic Baume & Mercier tourbillon pocketwatch which was presented by Alcide Baume in 1892 in the chronometry competition located by England's Kew Observatory. It won your competition and it is chronometry scores continued to be unbeaten for any decade.

The Clifton 1892 Flying Tourbillon begins with a 45.5mm 18k red gold situation within the familiar Clifton shape using the signature curved lugs. Sure, it's large, however the overall profile is comparatively thin and also the look comes with an overall good balance to it. The opaline silvered dial has a mix of applied Arabic numerals (again, exactly the same available on other Clifton models) and applied batons, having a printed minutes track and blue printed Arabic numerals every 5 minutes. The faceted sword hands are crisp and readable, and also the sub-seconds register is tucked between two applied indexes lower at 6 o'clock.

The middle of attention though may be the flying tourbillon at 9 o'clock. This can be a first for Baume & Mercier, and definitely not at all something many people expect in the brand. And, sure, the 1892 is priced far beyond most Baume & Mercier watches, however it talks to how seriously the company really takes watchmaking and just what its collectors want. Plus, will still be much more accessibly priced than the usual flying tourbillon from many competing brands.

Powering the 1892 may be the caliber P591

Designed for Baume & Mercier at Val Fleurier. The P591 is by hand wound and also the single barrel includes a 50-hour power reserve. The caliber is just 4.66mm thick, has 21 jewels, and houses an account balance beating at 28,800 vph (4 Hz) in the center from the flying tourbillon. The big three-quarter plate has wide Cotes de Geneve with simply the press and click on wheel visible on the top. Right of that's the tourbillon bridge, with Baume & Mercier's Phi engraved in the center. Below you can observe the fine perlage around the bottom from the plates.

It isn't an ornately decorated tourbillon, but it is not even close to industrial. The aim here's to produce a flying tourbillon that embodies exactly the same values of unpolluted design and cost-effective prices that defines all of those other Clifton collection.

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