Budget Baume & Mercier Women's 8768 Iliea Swiss Watch

Budget Baume & Mercier Women's 8768 Iliea Swiss Watch

Product Description

Stainless steel case. Black leather strap. Silver dial. Date displays at 6 o'clock position. Scratch resistant sapphire crystal. Deployment buckle. Crown set with 1 diamond. Case diameter 30mm. Case thickness 9.5mm. Quartz movement. Water resistant at 30 meters (100 feet). Baume and Mercier Ilea Ladies Watch 8768

List Price:	$1,890.00
Price:	$775.00
as of Thu, 21 Mar 2013 17:26:07 GMT

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #28293 in Watches
• Brand: Baume & Mercier
• Model: 8768
• Dimensions: 5.91" h x 5.91" w x 5.91" l, 1.49 pounds
• Band material: Leather
• Bezel material: stainless-steel
• Case material: stainless-steel
• Clasp type: deployment-buckle
• Dial color: silver
• Dial window material: scratch-resistant-sapphire
• Movement type: swiss-quartz
• Water-resistant to 100 feet

Features

• Swiss Quartz Movement
• Silver guilloche dial with hours, minutes, seconds, date
• Stainless steel round case
• Black alligator strap
• Water-resistant to 100 feet (30 M)

Amazon.com
An elegant timepiece for women of sophistication and style, the Baume & Mercier Women's Iliea Swiss Watch offers a classic, silver dial with silver-toned, Arabic numeral hour indexes at three, nine, and twelve o'clock. The circular dial marks all other hours with silver-toned dashes while crisp, silver-toned three-hand movement makes it easy to tell time. The polished, stainless steel bezel complements the dial, while a scratch-resistant, sapphire crystal protects it from nicks. Made from high-quality leather, the textured black watch strap is secured with a buckle clasp. Equipped with precise, Swiss quartz movement, the refined watch is water-resistant to 99 feet (30 meters).

The Baume & Mercier Story

Baume & Mercier has a rich history in storied tradition of Swiss watchmaking, now over 170 years. In 1830, brothers Louis Victor and Pierre-Joseph-Celestin Baume established the Baume Freres Watch firm in the Swiss Jura region--the heart of the Swiss watch industry. As business flourished in Europe a grandson of the founder, William Baume met Paul Mercier, a great lover of the arts and in 1918 they created a business partnership. The contrast of the rigorous, precise Baume with the artistic, free thinking Mercier fused form and function to create the traditions of perfection, quality, and luxury that still exist today.

In 1964, Baume & Mercier registered the Greek letter PHI as its brand logo, and it continues to be present on all Baume & Mercier designs. A symbol of the golden ratio and Leonard de Vinci's theory of proportion, it represents aesthetic elegance based on "divine proportions" that remain the brand's cardinal values.

the designers at Baume & Mercier utilize the goldmine of the company's over 175 years of watch-making history--from the oval of a crown to the graphics of a dial--to create the aesthetic contours of new timepieces. Inspired by a rectangular pink gold watch introduced by Baume & Mercier in 1960, the signature Hampton line of watches was created as a blend of watchmaking tradition and contemporary design. And the company still lives by the original slogan of the Baume brothers when they started Baume Freres: "Accept only perfection, only manufacture watches of the highest quality."