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·Available for you is this handsome early 1960s Baume & Mercier Geneve
I could not find many vintage Baume & Mercier watches listed for sale or sold. So a bit of history for those who aren’t familiar with the brand.
Baume & Mercier began in 1830 when brothers Louis-Victor and Célestin Baume began selling watches in Les Bois, a village in the Swiss Jura. At the beginning of the 1920s, the company director William Baume joined forces with Paul Mercier. Together, they founded Baume & Mercier - Genève. Symbolic of the Golden Ratio, in 1960 the company began to use the Greek letter Phi for their logo. This I believe is what we are seeing under the balance wheel.
About the watch:
View attachment 1179042
Le front
Le lume
Le Baume (edit, trying to get the video link to work)
https://youtube.com/shorts/7panwsXw_y4
References available at https://omegaforums.net/threads/pocket-watch-lanyards.115644/ (towards the bottom of the ad)
Thank you for looking, and thanks to the forum for the space!
I could not find many vintage Baume & Mercier watches listed for sale or sold. So a bit of history for those who aren’t familiar with the brand.
Baume & Mercier began in 1830 when brothers Louis-Victor and Célestin Baume began selling watches in Les Bois, a village in the Swiss Jura. At the beginning of the 1920s, the company director William Baume joined forces with Paul Mercier. Together, they founded Baume & Mercier - Genève. Symbolic of the Golden Ratio, in 1960 the company began to use the Greek letter Phi for their logo. This I believe is what we are seeing under the balance wheel.
About the watch:
- 34mm without crown
- Only 9.5mm thick (!) 😎
- 15 jewels
- Lug width is 17.5mm, the included strap (shown here) is 18mm
- Under the balance wheel it is marked 2390, followed by their (I believe) Phi symbol. This could be an ETA 2390 https://17jewels.info/movements/e/eta/eta-2390/
- The watch is running strong and keeping good time
- There is a Radium burn where watch was left at 8:50 for some years, an interesting artifact that tells a unique story
- The watch comes with the rather nice strap pictured here
- There is some case wear around the lugs
- The watch ships from my home in Vancouver, Canada
View attachment 1179042
Le front
Le lume
Le Baume (edit, trying to get the video link to work)
https://youtube.com/shorts/7panwsXw_y4
References available at https://omegaforums.net/threads/pocket-watch-lanyards.115644/ (towards the bottom of the ad)
Thank you for looking, and thanks to the forum for the space!
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