Baume & Mercier Classima Executives Automatic Chronograph

Watch news is always filled with stories of innovation, exotic materials, new complications, and novel ways of displaying information. While "new" is often exciting, there is something splendidly serene about seeing traditional, as opposed to modern, watch art. There was a time around the turn of the 20th century when watch making went in two directions. While watches began to lower in cost enough to become available to many more people, the ultra rich needed something to brag about. Hence came ........

The National Watch & Clock Museum in Columbia, Pennsylvania has identified the collection and preservation of wristwatches a principal goal in its recently adopted Collection Plan (June 2009). The achievement of this goal will require a substantial amount of expertise in the history, manufacture and presentation of wristwatches as well as a close examination of the wristwatches already a part of the Museum collection. The National Watch & Clock Museum, thanks to financial support from th........