Herblingen · Schaffhausen · Joinville · 1855
Some watches tell time. Ours tell stories.
Swiss Made · Mechanical · Founders Edition
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Herblingen · Schaffhausen · Joinville · 1855
Swiss Made · Mechanical · Founders Edition
The Origin
Hamburg → Joinville · ship Komeet · 1855
Designed to be inherited. The details will reveal themselves in time.
A watch for those who think in generations.
Not for those who collect objects — for those who collect meaning.
For the father who knows the most important thing he will ever give his son
is not money, but a symbol that says: I thought of you before you were born.
For the son who one day opens a box, holds something his father's hands held,
and feels — not nostalgia — but a kind of gravity. The weight of belonging
to something that began long before him and will continue long after.
We believe time does not belong to us.
Every hour is a gift. Every minute deserves intention.
A watch, then, is not a machine — it is an act of humility.
Herblingen, Canton Schaffhausen — Switzerland
The Baumer family arrived in Joinville in 1855 — one of the first Swiss families to settle in what was then a colony carved out of the Atlantic Forest.
They built with their hands. They prayed in German. They raised children who raised children who raised children — six generations deep into Brazilian soil.
The Swiss origin was never forgotten. It was carried in silence — the way families carry the things that matter most.
This watch is that silence made visible.
Komeet · Hamburg → Joinville · 1855
Every Baumer is built to outlive its owner. A timepiece conceived as inheritance — so that the next generation receives something worthy of the one that came before.
More than a century ago, a family left Switzerland and crossed the Atlantic. Six generations later, one of their own makes the return journey — not to forget, but to honour both worlds.
The moment a father passes a watch to his son. The weight of it. The silence before the words. That is what Baumer exists to make eternal.
To the one reading this,
My great-great-grandfather left Switzerland and boarded a ship in Hamburg one winter morning in 1855. He left behind his homeland. He carried forward everything that mattered.
Seventy-five days at sea. Six generations of work. A life rebuilt from the ground up — through endurance, precision, and the quiet discipline of those who came before me.
Baumer is not a brand. It is a way of remembering. A timepiece, yes — but also a thread between a Swiss origin, a Brazilian home, a father, a son, and whoever opens its case a hundred years from now.
If these words found you, perhaps you already understand.
Welcome.
With gratitude,
Diogo Baumer
Sixth Generation · Joinville, 2026