True to their tried and trusted formula, Bell & Ross have designed a military version of the BR 03 Ceramic, giving it a khaki dial with a matt black ceramic strap, and a khaki canvas strap. Add a Sellita movement, and voilà, you have the BR 03 Military Type. Case and dial The dial has…
Three years ago, the Bell & Ross Vintage Sport Heritage paid tribute to the 50th anniversary of the Dassault Falcon business jet. This year, Bell & Ross feature another Dassault aircraft, the multi-role fighter jet Rafale, with its chronograph BR 03-94 Rafale. Like all Bell & Ross watches, the concept that the designers want to…
Company profile: Bell & Rossi is a company with head office in Paris, and manufacturing facility in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland. It was founded in 1992 by French-Swiss designer Bruno Belamich, who had studied at the École Nationale Supérieure de Création Industrielle, in Paris, and entrepreneur Carlos A. Rosillo, who had studied at the HEC (École…
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the BR 01, an iconic piece for Bell & Ross, and one that has spawned 150 different models and 50 limited editions. Ten years ago, the BR 01 was inspired by aeronautical instruments and their simplicity and legibility, and Bell & Ross have reaped their rewards. The BR…
This selection presents twenty pilot’s watches, still in production, with the classic black dial, white Arabic numerals, and triangle marker at 12 o’clock, recalling the watches supplied to the Luftwaffe in the years before, during and after the Second Worlld War by A. Lange & Sohne, IWC, Wempe, Laco, and Stowa. Three of those historic…
If SIHH is like the hors d’oeuvres, Baselworld, running from 19 to 26 March, is a bonanza gala dinner. The Geneva show presents the 16 brands in the Richemont group; Baselworld presents just about all the rest there is in watchmaking and jewellery, with the massive number of 1,500 brands. There is space for everyone,…
‘Skeleton watches’ seem perfect for Halloween, and so here is a small selection of watches on the skull theme. The motif has been around for a long time, more in art than in watches. Damien Hirst’s diamond-encrusted skull ‘For the Love of God’ is probably the best-known work on this theme, in platinum with 8,501…
The BR-X1 chronograph by Bell & Ross looks exciting, with its dark interior workings providing the backdrop for glimmering steel hands and subdials, in the brand’s classic square-shaped case inspired by cockpit instruments. While the BR-01 launched about ten years ago, and the more recent BR-03, were very close to the classic pilot’s watch design,…
It’s a familiar type of watch. Black dial, white numbers, large size, lots of SuperLuminova, Pilot’s watches were originally designed to be easily legible in an aircraft cockpit, and so simplicity was essential. Today, pilots have all sorts of electronic equipment to help them, but even so, the pilot’s watch is great for everyday use…