A novelty pre-Baselworld 2015, the Bell & Ross Military Type BR03-92, the umpteenth version - for now - of its well-known BR 0X-92 series, this time combining mass-dyed black ceramic - which guarantees color stability - with a khaki dial and numerals and indexes completely covered inSuperluminova®as are the now classic needles, whose part closest to the center is also painted in khaki. Similar to old military watches, the dial has a red symbol imitating the old tritium warning (H3), although in this case what the circle encloses are the letters MT for “Military Type”. Flat sapphire crystal with anti-reflective treatment.
Being that it is water resistant to 100 meters as stated in the technical specifications (again:not suitable for diving) I deduce that the crown will be screwed, and therefore made of steel with PVD treatment. The two supplied straps are 100% waterproof: one made of black rubber and the other made of “ultra-resistant synthetic material” – I assume nylon – both with a steel buckle also treated with PVD. What is not specified in the press release is whether each strap comes with its own buckle or they have to share it, a detail that is not unimportant, since we already know that in certain brands the buckle alone represents a small budget.
Of the Bell & Ross Military Type BR03-92 movement we only know that it is a single hour with date and central seconds called by Bell & Ross “Caliber BR-CAL.302”, which could indicate an ETAsa 2024 (I don't think it's a COSC version, because in that case they would say so) or perhaps a Sellita W200 given the future shortage of ETAsa supply that the Swatch Group has been announcing for years.
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The press release also does not mention the price of this not so new model, but taking into account that of its predecessors in the series and especially the recent liberation of the Euro / Swiss Franc parity, I do not think it will be far from €4,000.
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