Wearing the Baumatic COSC is an exercise in incremental appreciation. Where the model may struggle a bit is that it’s overall a rather subtle piece – it doesn’t have the immediate wow factor going for it that some other more extroverted watches have and there is nothing in particular about it that knocks your socks off at first glance. This however is not to say that it’s not a beautiful and quite appealing timepiece, but merely to observe that like many valuable and potentially long-term relationships, the allure of the Baumatic COSC as a partner is something that tends to reveal itself over time rather than right up front.
I felt the watch, for all its many interesting traits, a little underwhelming at first but as the days went by I started to appreciate its combination of technical excellence and pragmatic but thoughtful design, more and more – it’s a watch that lives very much in the details and by the end of the week, I began to find its rather diffident devotion to getting its job done quite emotionally appealing. What one wants in a daily-wear timepiece, after all, is the same steadiness and loyalty that you find in a good dog (if you’re a cat person, peace be upon you and perhaps we can agree that dogs are maybe more proverbial for those qualities than cats) and the sense that both of those qualities are present seem in the Baumatic COSC less and less mere technical properties, and more and more part of a kind of personality, as time goes on.
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