America?s largest luxury watch show, WatchTime New York, returns to Manhattan?s Gotham Hall on October 26-27 (click here for event details and to purchase tickets). As we count down to the big event, we continue to spotlight many of the new timepieces that guests will discover there. Today we turn our attention to a timepiece that has become one of the most discussed watches of 2018, the Baume & Mercier Clifton Baumatic COSC.
Baume & Mercier Clifton Baumatic COSC 10436
Boasting a five-day power reserve, the Baumatic quickly claims the title as the most technically-advanced timepiece in the brand?s current stable while maintaining Baume & Mercier?s reputation as Richemont?s most accessible brand. This isn?t the first time that Baume & Mercier has been used as a breeding ground for new technology within Richemont, after all, it was the first brand within the conglomerate to offer a timepiece that utilized a silicon balance spring with last year’s Clifton Manual 1830.
This time around, the Baumatic has a newly developed, self-winding, in-house movement that ups the ante with a silicon anchor and escape wheel while the balance spring uses the same Twinspir construction that was found in the Clifton Manual 1830. The Twinspir technology combines two separate cores of silicon that are bound by a silicon dioxide layer and set at a 45-degree angle which aids in ensuring thermocompensation. All of these combined developments have resulted in a 120 hour (...