Baume & Mercier announced its partnership with Indian Motorcycle back in August, and we knew it was only a matter of time before the collaboration produced its first co-designed timepiece. And not that much time at all, it turns out: the new Baume & Mercier Clifton Club Burt Munro Tribute Limited Edition ? a watch honoring the man who set the world’s land speed record on a modified Indian Scout motorcycle in 1967 ? was launched today in Milan at EICMA, the world’s most important motorcycle show.
Baume & Mercier Clifton Club Burt Munro LE – Front
The watch, which is limited to 1,967 pieces (do the math), takes its inspiration from the eponymous Munro, a lifelong motorcycle racing enthusiast who bought his Indian bike in 1926 and spent 40 years modifying it for greater and greater speeds ? until that pivotal day at Utah’s Bonneville Salt Flats in 1967, when the now 68-year-old grandfather took it to a top speed of 184.087 mph, a record that still stands today. (This feat, which was dramatized in the 2006 film The World’s Fastest Indian, was re-enacted at those selfsame Salt Flats 50 years later, by Munro’s great-nephew Lee, during the announcement of Baume’s partnership with “America’s First Motorcycle Company” back in August.) Several elements of the new timepiece ? which makes its debut within the recently launched, sporty Clifton Club collection, alongside another model born from a motorsports partners...