Through timepieces that combine technical performance and remarkable aesthetics, Baume & Mercier captures every second in a unique moment and celebrates life's precious moments.

 With the Riviera collection, Baume & Mercier freezes life's moments like a photographer who captures the fleetingness of an action and highlights the intensity of an emotion. Time becomes a perspective, an angle, a focus; a decisive click, an aesthetic exploration. Precision is a challenge; technicality, a strength; a sense of detail, a requirement; style, a signature. Since its creation in 1830, Baume & Mercier has dedicated its technical expertise and design spirit to every moment of life. What could be more precise than a chronograph to bring them to life? To express the intensity of these fractions of time, the Riviera collection welcomes four new chronographs, available from June.

Dedicated to personal moments, the Riviera Flyback Chronograph (10828) and Riviera Chronograph 41 mm (10827, 10825 and 10826) eloquently reveal the wearer's perception of time. This man feels master of his time and his life. Confident, he knows what he wants and expects from the watch he has chosen to accompany him through every moment of his life. He's sure of his choice because he's banking on reliability and craftsmanship; on the heritage of a House whose watchmaking excellence has been perpetuated for nearly 200 years.

The history of Baume & Mercier is marked by the constant evolution of its chronograph expertise. Baume & Mercier excelled in the most important chronometry competitions, including the most prestigious, the Kew Observatory in England. In 1887, it won the competition's highest score - 85.1 points out of 100 - with a rattrapante chronograph, and a record 91.9 points in 1892 for a keyless chronometer with tourbillon escapement. This early success laid the foundations for the company's reputation for precision and innovation.

The House continued to refine its chronograph skills throughout the late 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, developing chronographs with tachometric and telemetric scales, culminating in a model with a triple date and moon-phase complication. These technically advanced timepieces were combined with elegant designs, often in gold, with cushion or square cases.

The acquisition of C.H. Meylan Watch SA in 1952 enabled the in-house production of movements, considerably accelerating this evolution. Baume & Mercier produces chronographs with increasingly complex complications, including full date functions, moon phases and specialized totalizers, all manufactured with its own movements at its Manufacture in Le Brassus. These timepieces, embodying the Maison's commitment to technical precision and elegant design, constitute a highly prized chronograph heritage.

The development of chronographs continued over the following decades in modern, sporty collections, such as the Malibu line and the Capeland model, representing a return to sporty technical chronographs in the early 1990s. The chronograph also made its appearance in the Riviera collection in 1993 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of this watchmaking icon, then on the Classima Executive line in 1997, and made its return to the same collection in 2024, demonstrating the enduring legacy of Baume & Mercier's chronograph expertise. 

This heritage sets the tempo for the new Riviera models.