Mercer is a brand I?ve seen popping up on Instagram for the past year or so, and for a good reason. If you?re unfamiliar, the brand is a rising design house offering an assortment of watches in both vintage and modern styles, as well as a curated selection of leather goods. Even more impressively, Mercer is based in Princeton, New Jersey, where the brand assembles, regulates, and tests each of its watches before shipping them directly to consumers. Today, we?ll be taking a look at what is likely its most popular neo-vintage piece in the bi-compax Lexington Chronograph ? a competitively priced, ?60s-inspired racing-style chronograph.

To start off, the Lexington Chronograph uses a 39-mm polished steel case, sitting relatively high on the wrist with its manually-wound movement at 13.5-mm. The case features two simple pump pushers and a push/pull crown on its side. The racing chronograph dial of the watch is available in three colorways: blue with silver accents, a panda-style white with black, and a bright white with silver. Around the edge of each is an outer chronometric scale, with a racing-style minute ring just within, and applied markers accented with a small amount of lume to designate each hour. The watch features a 30-minute chronograph counter and running seconds counter at the 3 and 9 o?clock positions, respectively, with two lume-filled sword-style hands sweeping over the dial for hour and minutes, and with a complementary arrow-tipped hand for the chronograph se...