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Skeleton in Ceramic: Introducing the Bell & Ross BR 01 Cyber Skull

French-founded Bell & Ross is known for its creative designs and unique takes on the aviation-influenced, square-cased style that the company pioneered with the BR 01 collection. The BR 01 Concept Skull series, in particular, has showcased some of Bell & Ross’s most playful offerings in recent years, and its skull-and-crossbones motif has become a...

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Jan 2, 2021 by Caleb Anderson

Showing at WatchTime Live 2020: Bell & Ross BR 03-92 H.U.D. Edition

Bell & Ross famously planted its flag in the watch world with the introduction of the BR 01 Instrument, inspired by airplane cockpit clocks, in 2005. In 2010, the brand launched the first of a number of variations that took cues from other onboard instruments, such as radar screens and heading indicators. This year, Bell...

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Oct 5, 2020 by Mark Bernardo

Bell & Ross BR 03-92 Diver Orange: A Boutique-Exclusive Limited Edition

Bell & Ross launched the BR 03-92 Diver in 2017, its first divers’ watch fashioned in the familiar, square-shaped “Instrument” case that the brand pioneered with its line of aviation watches. That black-dialed model was followed by a blue-dialed version last year, and the most recent BR 03-92, offered exclusively in Bell & Ross boutiques...

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Sep 21, 2020 by Mark Bernardo

A Punch of Light: Bell & Ross Unveils BR 03-92 Full Lum Limited Edition

Ever since the introduction of the BR 03-92 Diver in 2017, its first dive watch in the iconic square case shape, French watchmaker Bell & Ross has gone on to expand this popular model into an entire collection. This month, the brand announced the debut of the BR 03-92 Full Lum Limited Edition, the seventh reference added to this "Instrument" collection, here with a dial coated entirely in Super-LumiNova.

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Jun 30, 2020 by Corey Vlahos

NEWS

Formula 1 of the Future: Bell & Ross Releases New R.S.20 Collection

Last week, Bell & Ross unveiled its latest collection produced in partnership with Renault’s Formula 1 team. The new collection, titled R.S.20 (R.S. stands for Renault Sport, the carmaker’s motorsport, performance and special vehicles division), features four new chronographs featuring the team’s black-and-yellow colorway and geared toward fostering the “Formula 1 of the future.” To...

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Mar 16, 2020 by Caleb Anderson

WATCH TO WATCH

Light Through the Clouds: Bell & Ross BR 03-92 Grey Lum

Bell & Ross has expanded its series-within-a-series of BR 03-92 Lum models, whose intensely luminous dials take inspiration from the nighttime lights on airport runways (Lum is short for the French “lumière,” or “light”), with the new BR 03-92 Grey Lum. The watch’s 42-mm case, in the French-Swiss watch manufacturer’s emblematic cockpit-clock “circle in a...

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Mar 5, 2020 by Mark Bernardo

BASELWORLD 2020 PREVIEW

Bell & Ross Covers Land, Sea, and Air with Three New BR V2 Watches

Today, Bell & Ross has unveiled three new models within its neo-vintage BR V2 line, becoming, we believe, the first watchmaker to offer an official glimpse of new products launching at the upcoming Baselworld 2020 watch fair. The three new pieces, the BR V2-92 Military Green, BR V2-94 Aéronavale Bronze, and BR V2-93 GMT Blue, are designed to represent a trifecta of sea, air, and land watches.

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Feb 1, 2020 by Caleb Anderson

NEWS

Bleached Bones: Bell & Ross BR 01 Laughing Skull White

We’re still recycling wrapping paper from the holiday season and sweeping up confetti from New Year’s celebrations, but Bell & Ross has released a watch that already has us in mind of Halloween, namely the latest edition of its clever, quirky automaton model, the BR 01 Laughing Skull, which has as its central attraction a...

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Jan 3, 2020 by Mark Bernardo

COUNTDOWN TO WTNY

Showing at WatchTime New York 2019: Bell & Ross BR 05 Black Steel

America's luxury watch extravaganza, WatchTime New York, is less than two weeks away! Returning for its fifth consecutive year at Manhattan’s Gotham Hall on October 25 - 26, the event is shaping up to be the biggest yet, with 37 participating watch brands displaying their latest and greatest timepieces. Among them is longtime WTNY exhibitor Bell & Ross, which will be showcasing the BR 05 Black Steel from its recently launched sport-luxury collection.

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Oct 14, 2019 by Mark Bernardo

REVIEW:

Diving with the Square-Shaped Bell & Ross BR 03-92 Diver

“A divers’ watch with corners? That’s absurd.” This comment, or a similar one, might be heard from techies who know that it’s much harder to make a square watch case watertight than a round one. But Bell & Ross has succeeded in constructing the brand’s characteristic quadratic case in such a way that it can...

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Oct 3, 2019 by Alexander Krupp

COUTURETIME 2019:

The Bell & Ross BR 03-92 MA-1: A Flight Jacket for the Wrist (Updated)

For its new BR 03-92 MA-1 limited edition — unveiled at Baselworld 2019 and featured among the brand's highlight pieces at last week's CoutureTime event in Las Vegas — Bell & Ross looked beyond the cockpit instruments and took its design cues from an iconic piece of aviator apparel, the famous MA-1 flight jacket adopted by the U.S. Air Force in the 1950s. Here's a closer look.

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Jun 3, 2019 by Mark Bernardo

COUNTDOWN TO WTLA:

Three New Bell & Ross Watches You’ll Discover at WatchTime LA

Much like recently minted Laker LeBron James, WatchTime will be taking its talents to L.A. on May 3-4 for the inaugural WatchTime Los Angeles collectors' event, and we're bringing 27 of the industry's most interesting and innovative timepiece brands with us. One of them is longtime event participant Bell & Ross, which will be showing an array of new watches just recently unveiled at Baselworld 2019 last month. Here's a taste.

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Apr 13, 2019 by Mark Bernardo

PRE-BASELWORLD 2019:

Compass Charisma: Bell & Ross BR 03-92 Bi-Compass

Comparatively speaking, Bell & Ross is still a newer face in the contemporary watch industry. Launched in 1992, right in the middle of the so-called Revival Years of the mechanical wristwatch, the company has managed to establish a strong following and recognizable look thanks to its trademark “square-in-circle” design that is directly inspired by the...

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Feb 4, 2019 by Logan R. Baker

WATCH TO WATCH

Total Transparency: Bell & Ross BR-X2 Skeleton Tourbillon Micro-Rotor

“A movement worn directly on the wrist” is how Bell & Ross describes its latest limited-edition haute horlogerie creation, the BR-X2 Tourbillon Micro-Rotor. Designed by the brand’s prolific Creative Director Bruno Belamich, the timepiece utilizes the emblematic Bell & Ross square case shape to underline an architecture in which the case and caliber unite to form...

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Sep 6, 2018 by Mark Bernardo

Showing at WatchTime New York 2018: Bell & Ross BR 03-92 Diver Blue

WatchTime New York, America’s luxury watch show, returns to the Big Apple in October! As we countdown to the big event, taking place at Manhattan’s Gotham Hall on October 26-27, we’ll be previewing many of the new timepieces that guests will discover there. First up is the new blue version of the Bell & Ross...

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Jun 29, 2018 by Mark Bernardo

COUTURE 2018:

Introducing the Bell & Ross BR-01 Laughing Skull

  Bell & Ross has been one of the watch brands at the forefront of the “skull dial” trend since its 2009 release of the BR 01 “Skull,” and its latest contribution to the niche but increasingly popular category, unveiled at this week’s Couture watch and jewelry show, takes it to the next level: the...

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Jun 2, 2018 by Mark Bernardo

WATCH TO WATCH

Bell & Ross BR V2-93 GMT 24H: Triple Time Zone Tracker

Few watch manufacturers can claim as much direct aviation-instrument influence across their entire portfolio as Bell & Ross, and few horological complications are more useful to a pilot than an indication of multiple time zones — so what better brand to produce a timepiece capable of displaying not just two but three time zones simultaneously than the one with the big ampersand logo and dashboard DNA? Here is the lowdown on the new BR v2-93 GMT 24H.

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May 18, 2018 by Mark Bernardo