Baume & Mercier Adds a GMT to Riviera

From JustLuxe contented spouse iW Magazine

With its full-throttled merchandise of caller Riviera designs wrong the past fewer years, Baume & Mercier continues 2023 to update 1 of its most-loved designs.

One of 2 caller Baume & Mercier Riviera GMT models.

While the astir recent Riviera update includes good-looking time-only, satellite phase, and skeleton models, this caller GMT variation turned my caput the quickest. Granted, the steel and titanium design came successful a adjacent second, but the caller 42mm alloy Riviera GMT model, offered successful 2 colour options, topped my list.

With its twelve-sided bezel and accompanying 4 screws, Riviera has managed to clasp its casual elegance since its 1973 debut. When Baume & Mercier presented a fifth-generation Riviera postulation successful 2021, I was impressed.

But the caller GMT upholds Riviera’s tacit invitation to question (yes, to the French Riviera) with an existent dual-time function. Its cardinal 4th manus rotates astir the dial each 24 hours to bespeak the clip successful the question destination connected the peripheral hr scale.

The GMT manus connected the caller plan is arsenic reddish arsenic a sunburn connected its namesake beach, and connected either dial, the 2nd clip portion is ever highly visible. But this is particularly existent connected the silver-dial edition, which besides displays the 24-hour markers successful matching red.

As noted, the two new Riviera GMT watches are disposable successful 2 versions: 1 with a bluish dial and a bluish rubber strap and 1 with a metallic dial and a alloy bracelet. Both connection a tone-on-tone sun-satin decorativeness and question dial decor nether a sapphire crystal with anti-glare coating connected some sides. The GMT question present is powered by an ETA-based caliber.

The watch’s octagonal crown of people displays Baume & Mercier’s Phi logo engraved successful alleviation with a reddish line. Baume & Mercier’s ain “Fast Strap” interchangeability strategy makes it a elemental task to alteration from 1 strap benignant to different with nary request for tools.

Prices: $3,200 (silver dial and alloy bracelet) and $3,100 (blue dial with bluish rubber strap).