Baume & Mercier Riviera

Baume & Mercier relaunched its 1973 classic, the Riviera, in 2021, joining the now-crowded bandwagon of watchmakers offering a luxury sport watch on an integrated bracelet. The modern versions stand apart from the more classical elegance evident in Baume's other collections, with 12-sided bezels with four visible (and functional) screws at the corners; the dials, meanwhile, evoke a sense of historical luxury with their applied Roman numeral hour indexes, partially openworked Dauphine hands and eye-catching textured motifs, like the nautical-influenced wave pattern that enhances the blue dial on the model featured here. Inside the satin-brushed case of the Riviera, Baume & Mercier installs either a dependable Sellita SW 200 or, in the models with smoked, semi-transparent dials, its in-house Baumatic BM13-1975A, with a five-day power reserve.