Baume & Mercier Hampton Classic

Seems as though a few times a week I am informed about a new pilot watch. Brands like to talk about how this feature helps pilots with this, and how aviators love that. Apparently someone uses a slide-rule bezel, and being able to see 12 timezones at once is useful. Without knowing what people who fly actually use and need, it is hard for me to discuss these pieces on a level above being a watch nerd. It is for that reason that I am happy to have finally got a taste for flight, and what aviator ........

Christmas eve , surrounded by family and all is right with the world .While preparing the next days feast, I hear hushed yet frantic voices from the next room. I leave the kitchen to see what has happened . I find my family huddled around something on the living room floor , my watch , which I took off so I could cook , a Daniel Richard chronograph with it's doomed 36.5 mm sapphire crystal in pieces on the hard wood floornew cam 014.jpg After the initial shock , I heard the reassuring statements........