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Bell & Ross Add a Green Chrono to BR 05

Bell & Ross mixes nature and architecture with the new BR 05 Chrono Green Steel, the latest model in its BR 05 series of ‘rounded square’ designs.

The new Bell & Ross BR 05 Chrono Green Steel.

While we saw a similar sun-ray green dial from Bell & Ross earlier this year when the watchmaker introduced a gold-cased, three-hand model (BR 05 Green Gold), this newer model appears even more contemporary, especially as a steel chronograph.

Steel, after all, shines in any urban area, and with the geometric, multi-level BR 05 case and fully integrated bracelet, the watch’s so-called ‘urban spirit’ is evident.

“The case and strap are one,” notes Bell & Ross Creative Director Bruno Belamich. “This design is a nod to a type of watch that first appeared in the 1970s. Transposed into the Bell & Ross identity, we were able to achieve a result that is at once clear, modern and graphic.”

The new BR 05 Chrono Green Steel joins a wide range of Bell & Ross chronographs, many of which are also powered by the Sellita-based self-winding BR-CAL.326 movement.

Bell & Ross fits an eye-catching automotive-inspired 360-degree rotor to the movement, which is visible through a sapphire caseback. 

Price: $6,200 (rubber strap) and $6,700 (steel bracelet). 

 

Specifications: Bell & Ross BR 05 Chrono Green Steel 

Movement: Automatic Caliber BR-CAL.326 (Sellita base) powering  hours, minutes, small seconds at 9 o’clock and date. Chronograph: 30-minute counter at 3 o’clock, central chronograph seconds.

Case: 42mm by 14.25mm satin-polished steel. Screw-down crown. Crown guard. Sapphire crystal and sapphire case-back with 360° oscillating weight. Water-resistance to 100 meters.

Dial: Green sunray with applique indices filled with SuperLuminova. Satin-finished applique numerals. Metal skeletonized SuperLuminova-filled hour and minute hands. 

Strap: Green rubber or satin-polished steel with satin-polished steel folding buckle. 

Price: $6,200 (rubber strap) and $6,700 (steel bracelet).

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Nomos Adds New Size and New Dials to Ahoi

Nomos introduces two automatic Ahoi watches with a new case size and two new dial colors.

The new Ahoi Neomatik 38 Date Sand from Nomos Glashütte.

The new steel-cased  Ahoi Neomatik 38 Date Sky and the Ahoi Neomatik 38 Date Sand each measure 38.5mm in diameter, a new mid-sized option for the sporty Ahoi collection. And with 200-meters of water resistance, the new Ahoi models live up to their names as they can be worn on any beach and regardless of inclement weather.

The new Nomos Ahoi Neomatik 38 Date Sky.

Nomos assures consumers that the Ahoi is also shock resistant thanks to a solid angular crown guard and a screw-down crown.

A red warning ring indicates that the crown is not yet screwed in.

Nomos also adds a screwed-down case back that, despite its manufacture from scratch-resistant sapphire crystal, remains water resistant while also offering a view of the nicely decorated automatic date caliber DUW 6101. A solid case back is also available and can be engraved at no extra cost.

Inside each new Ahoi is DUW 6101, a thin Nomos Neomatik caliber equipped with the patented Nomos date mechanism and the in-house built NOMOS swing system. A solid back is also available.

 

Both watches measure a slim 9.9mm in height, which with a mid-sized 38.5mm diameter positions each watch nicely under any cuffed shirt if need for any long sleeve attire arises during the remainder of the summer.

Nomos thoughtfully provides an anti-reflective coating on both sides of each model’s sapphire crystal, which makes it easy to see the dial’s large numerals and contrasting sand-colored or sky-blue dials. And with a generous helping of SuperLuminova, the hands and markers are quite legible in low-light conditions.

Price: $4,320. 

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Vulcain Revisits Cricket Nautical 

Vulcain introduces a version of its Cricket Nautical dive watch with a new design that echoes the original from 1961. The new model retains the Nautical’s pioneering alarm and dive-time display but adds a sapphire crystal to the 42.2mm steel case. 

The newest Vulcain Cricket Nautical.

As one of the first dive watches with an alarm, the Cricket Nautical extended the independent watchmaker’s primary claim to fame as a premier Swiss manufacturer of alarm watches.

The new Cricket Nautical makes it a simple task to read the dial indications underwater with two superimposed dials. One of the dials is fixed and the other rotates (via a crown at 4 o’clock) to calculate diving decompression times.

Vulcain’s proprietary system features a rectangular aperture that displays the stop times required at the typical diving depths of nine meters, six meters and three meters when ascending after an extended dive.

Vulcain offers its own ‘Triple Case Back’ case design that acts as a resonance chamber to project the alarm during a dive. A clear caseback version, nicely embellished with the stylized Vulcain V, is also available as an option. (See full specifications below). Likewise, Vulcain also offers a choice of a sapphire or acrylic crystal.

Inside Vulcain fits its owns manual-wind Caliber Vulcain Cricket Manufacture V-10 and protects it with a case water resistant to 300 meters.

Vulcain offers two different dial options with the new Cricket Nautical, each faithful to the original watch from 1961. One option features a black dial, faux-patina indexes and hands and an emerald green minute track.

The second option also features a black dial but with white Super-LumiNova hour markers and hands and a blue minute track. 

Price: $4,862. 

 

Specifications: Vulcain Cricket Nautical

Movement: Vulcain Cricket Manufacture V-10, a hand-wound alarm movement with two barrels, 18,000 vph and a 42-hour power reserve. Decoration includes nickel-plated treatment, blued screws, skeleton ratchets (on sapphire case back version). Functions: Hours, minutes, center seconds, alarm, decompression scale adjustable via screw-in crown at 4 o’clock. Alarm duration is twenty seconds.

Case: 42.2mm by 17.35mm steel with‘Triple Case Back’ that acts as a resonance chamber, allowing the alarm function to be used underwater, or sapphire crystal version embellished with the stylized “V”. Water resistance to 300 meters. 

Dial: Semi-matte black dial with decompression tables. The domed sapphire crystal is treated with an anti-reflective coating; a domed plexiglass version is also available. 

Strap: Black leather with a water-resistant carbon texture, steel pin buckle.

Price: $4,862.

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Oris Celebrates Hank Aaron 

Oris celebrates baseball hall-of-famer Hank Aaron with a limited-edition Big Crown Pointer Date, a debut that kicks off the watchmaker’s new collaboration with the non-profit Hank Aaron Chasing the Dream Foundation.

The new Oris Hank Aaron Limited Edition

With a design based on the well-known Oris Big Crown Pointer Date, the Hank Aaron Limited Edition features a blue, red and white color scheme inspired by Hank Aaron’s baseball uniform. But the colors here are subtle, with blue and red simply outlining numerals and the minutes ring.

 

The watch’s blue leather strap includes white stitching to echo Aaron’s baseball glove. Oris explains that the subtlety is offered to “reflect Aaron’s humble attitude.”

In addition to the blue leather strap, Oris includes an interchangeable blue, red and white NATO fabric strap and a strap change tool.

 

“Aaron was also one of the greats in Major League Baseball (MLB) history,” Oris notes. “Throughout his career, he encountered racism on and off the field, yet rose above it with grace and dignity to become a symbol of perseverance and strength through adversity, and an agent of social change.”

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Oris will celebrate the launch of the Hank Aaron Limited Edition starting July 25 with a multi-day celebration with the Atlanta Braves. All past winners of the Major League Baseballs’ Hank Aaron Award (awarded since 1999) will receive one of the 2,297 pieces of the limited-edition watch.

 

The 40mm steel automatic watch features a central pointer date hand with a red tip, a fluted bezel and a large crown.

 

Oris has engraved the back with an image of Aaron and his famous cross-handed batting stance.

Price: $2,500.

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TAG Heuer Launches Racing Blue Monaco 

TAG Heuer re-affirms its close connection to motorsports with the new Monaco Chronograph Racing Blue Limited Edition, a new edition of the famed square racing chronograph boasting a dial accented in a particularly French shade of blue.

The new TAG Heuer Monaco Chronograph Racing Blue Limited Edition.

The highlight color of the new Monaco chronograph model is meant to recall the early days of automotive racing when cars were distinguished by their national colors rather than the colors of a manufacturer or sponsor. TAG Heuer’s new Monaco Chronograph Racing Blue also references the hues of automotive brands like Talbot-Lago, Delage and Bugatti.

Thus, TAG Heuer designers colored the sub-dials and strap on the new watch with blue tones, twelve blue markers and rhodium-plated hour and minute hands with blue SuperLumiNova.

This color scheme nicely matches the silvered sunray brushed dial said to recall the engine-turned dashboards of sports cars in the 1920s and 1930s. A hard-to-miss yellow stripe announces the chronograph central hand and the faceted baton marker at 12 o’clock.

Inside the 39mm titanium case TAG Heuer fits its modernized automatic Calibre 11 chronograph movement, which is visible through the clear sapphire caseback.

The watchmaker decorates the back of the watch with a “One of 1000” engraving that details the number of watches available in this TAG Heuer Monaco Chronograph Racing Blue Limited Edition series.

TAG Heuer supplies a perforated blue calfskin strap with the watch. It’s linked to the wrist with a titanium folding clasp decorated with an engraved Heuer logo.

Price: $9,200.

 

Specifications: TAG Heuer Monaco Chronograph Racing Blue (CAW218C.FC6548, a limited edition of 1,000) 

 

Movement: TAG Heuer Calibre 11 Automatic (Sellita base) powering hours, minutes, seconds, date and chronograph.

Dial: Silver sunray brushed with 2 blue opalin counters, angled date, rhodium plated, polished applied indexes, rhodium-plated hour and minute hands with blue SuperLumiNova, lime yellow lacquered central hand, black HEUER printed logo.

Case: 39mm grade 2 titanium sandblasted, beveled, domed sapphire crystal, titanium crown, sapphire caseback, water resistance to 100 meters.

Bracelet: Blue perforated calfskin strap with grade 2 titanium folding clasp with double safety pushbuttons. 

Price: $9,200. 

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