At Bell & Ross’ booth at Baselworld this year, one watch clearly stood out among the others as “the A-list star”. That timepiece was the Bell & Ross BR 01 Airborne watch, a provocative new iteration of the brand’s extremely popular BR Instrument line that combines the seemingly contradictory impressions …
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With its new BR 01 Pro Titanium watch, has Bell & Ross “borrowed a page” from the legendary Audemars Piguet Royal Oak design? Being that the octagon bezel is the primary signature of Audemars Piguet’s most celebrated watch, one might indeed make the case that some of flattery’s sincerest form …
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Belittling quartz watches is an occasional past time of mechanical watch snobs. Hell, I’ve been there myself–denigrating these precise but “soulless” movements that nearly killed off the charming ticking of the mechanical watch industry in the 1970’s. However, I don’t do that much anymore. That could be because mechanical watches …
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Bell & Ross probably isn’t the brand that comes to mind when one is on the market for a dress watch – the reputation of the company has been forged with bold, bad, and big sports timepieces. However, the introduction of a new model may just change that. I’m referring …
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If you are the type of person who loves watching reality trainwrecks, you are probably pretty familiar with Ashton Kutcher’s show “Punk’d”. This show basically sucker punches celebrities – videotapes it – and then puts it on cable for all to see… Kutcher’s show has made Justin Timberlake cry for …
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In October, Bell & Ross watch fanatics will have a chance to enrich their obsession just a bit more. Following on the established and smashingly successful BR Instrument collection, Bell & Ross has taken a turn in more subtle directions with the new BRS timepieces. Showing off a strikingly handsome …
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Bell & Ross knows how to shake things up. Just last week, I commented a bit about how the brand has used ceramic to put some new flavor into their extremely cool BR Instrument watch collection. Bold colors are another way that Bell & Ross keeps collectors coming back for …
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Ceramic has been a very popular material in the creation of luxury watches lately – IWC (an early pioneer of ceramic in watchmaking) has recently shown off their Pilot’s Watch Double Chronograph Edition TOP GUN watch, as well as bringing out an Ingenieur watch variant with a ceramic bezel. Chanel …
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One of my all time favorite watch genres is that of the super-professional dive watch. While I don’t dive even recreationally, there is something inherently fascinating to me about these superbly engineered timekeeping instruments, which can descend to staggering depths, enduring with nonchalance the crushing water pressure which no human …
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People fall into 2 very distinct categories when trying to answer this question: people who don’t care and think about clothes and regard fashion and watches merely as functional utility items and those who are trying to say something about themselves by the things they wear. Its not to say …
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