Today's blog focuses on a collection of six watches by Bell & Ross. The BR-01 series
Bell & Ross
Launched in 1992, Bell & Ross is a French watch company with
production facilities located in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland.
The timepieces are designed by Swiss designer, Bruno Belamich and businessman Carlos A. Rosillo.
Bell & Ross are known for striking, simplistic designs influenced by
aeronautical cockpit instrumentation. Clearly legible dials have proven
popular among pilots and divers as practical wristwatches in a work
environment and are also seen as fashionable dress watches bearing
sleek, functional design.
For the Only Watch 2013
auction, Bell & Ross have assembled a collection of six watches
from the BR-01 collection, housed in a lavish case fashioned from high
quality wood. They are all inspired by
instruments that are essential to aeronautical
navigation and have, as their common and unique denominator, a touch of
orange.
This exclusive box is designed to be a dashboard on which the vital
instruments are laid out in a T for optimum legibility. It will give its
possessor the impression of owning a piece of an aircraft
cockpit.
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| Bell & Ross BR-01 COLLECTION |
Orange is the ultimate color for aeronautical instrumentation due to its
high level of legibility and capacity to make important information
stand out through contrast. It is also a traditional color
for Bell & Ross, which has used it on timepieces for the same
reasons.
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| Bell & Ross BR-01 AIRSPEED |
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| Bell & Ross BR-01 ALTIMETER |
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| Bell & Ross BR-01 CLIMB |
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| Bell & Ross BR-01 HEADING INDICATOR |
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| Bell & Ross BR-01 HORIZON |
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| Bell & Ross BR-01 TURN COORDINATOR |
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Catalogue description:
| Bell & Ross, Unique
set of 6 BR-01 watches
for Only Watch
Bell & Ross BR01 HORIZON,
ALTI METER , TURN COORDINATOR ,
HEADING INDICATOR , AIRSPED
and CLIMB.
A fine and unique set of 6 square,
self-winding, water-resistant, PVD-coated
wristwatches with cockpit-like instruments
featuring a touch of orange, and a PVD
coated Bell & Ross buckle. Accompanied
by a special fitted box and Certificate. |
| C. Three-body, polished and brushed,
straight lugs, bezel with four screws, screw
down winding crown. Sapphire crystal. D. Representing flight instruments. M. Based on Eta,
rhodium-plated, straight-line lever
escapement, monometallic balance, shock
absorber, self-compensating flat balance
spring, hack mechanism.
Dial, case and movement signed. |
Estimate: 24,000 EUR - 32,000 EUR
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