Both new Ball for BMW watches share the design cues of their predecessors in the collection — a three-hand automatic, a GMT and a power-reserve model — including the BMW grille motif and elements in BMW’s Inka orange signature color. They also share an element common to many other Ball timepieces: micro-gas tubes (14 in all, on the hour indices and hour and minute hands) filled with a luminous substance that requires no external source of light or energy and is 100 times more effective than the luminous paint used on most watch dials.
The Ball for BMW Chronograph is outfitted with a COSC-chronometer-certified ETA 7750 automatic movement, which includes a chronograph function that records elapsed times up to 12 hours. The watch displays the chronograph minutes at 12 o’clock, hours at 6 o’clock, small seconds at 9 o’clock, and a day-date display in a window at 3 o’clock. The movement also includes Ball’s patented Amortiser anti-shock system. The case, available in stainless steel or black DLC (diamond-like carbon), is 44 mm in diameter and 16 mm thick. It has a sapphire crystal caseback and screw-down crown and is water-resistant to 100 meters. The Ball for BMW Chronograph comes on a calfskin leather or rubberized leather strap or on a stainless steel bracelet. U.S. retail prices have yet to be determined.
The watch’s case is 44 mm in diameter and 13.25 mm thick and comes on a rubber strap. The thermometer indicator is in a semicircular scale at 6 o’clock, and the date is displayed in a round window at 1 o’clock. Two dials are available, one with the temperature readings in Fahrenheit (pictured) and the other in Celsius. The Ball for BMW TMT is a limited edition of 1,000 pieces, priced at $5,299.
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