As mechanical complications go, the chronograph stands as arguably the most versatile option of all. The applications of tracking an elapsed time on the fly are nearly endless, especially when overlaid with a second set of information to determine an average rate. Tachymeters are naturally the most common examples of this in modern watchmaking, but scales measuring eve [...]

Creating an instantly recognizable family resemblance across product lines can prove hugely beneficial for a brand, and few watchmakers have committed to this philosophy as thoroughly as Bell Ross. While its collection stretches from pilots watches to racing chronographs, dive watches, and integrated bracelet sports designs, the vast majority of the brands offerings [...]

Bronze-cased divers are one of the hottest trends in the current luxury watch market. The warmth, patina, and nautical underpinnings of bronze have made it a popular choice for enthusiasts, but for the most part, bronze divers have been restrained to highly traditional designs. On paper, this trend makes sense, with brands aiming to tie the maritime legacy of b [...]

My interest in the Bell Ross BR 05 has only increased since the original BR 05 watches came out in 2019. The first Bell Ross BR 05 watch I reviewed on had a skeletonized dial, which is a theme that has been popular with the collection. Bell Ross also currently offers a standard three-hand non-skeletonized version of the BR 05, a GMT, and also a two-regist [...]

Although the brands lineup is traditionally dominated by square-cased, aircraft instrument-inspired designs, the Bell Ross catalogue has no shortage of unique and offbeat looks as well. The BR 01 Cyber Skull might well be the most dramatic of these more experimental offerings. First launched in 2020, the Cyber Skull reinterprets the brands long-running skull an [...]

In the current state of the luxury watch market, few if any categories are hotter than integrated bracelet steel sports watches. Brands from nearly every corner of the industry have spent the last several years refining takes on this sports-luxe formula, but nearly all of these designs have deep stylistic roots in designer Gerald Gentas work in the early 70s for brands like [...]

Sponsored post presented on for advertiserMeant to evoke the silhouette of the cockpit clocks found in military airplanes from the 1960s, the Bell Ross instrument-style rectangular case shape is instantly recognizable, having become somewhat of an icon since its introduction in 2005. First released in 2018, the BR 03-92 Dive Collection is the first watch to utilize the brands iconi [...]

The tough, functional aesthetic of aircraft instruments has been the core of Bell Ross brand identity since its inception in 1994. Over the years, this stylistic inspiration has birthed watches based on altimeters, airspeed indicators, and even fighter jet heads-up displays, but one of the most striking of these aeronautical concepts is 2011s BR 01-92 Red Radar [...]

Bell Ross has been making watches with skull themes for long enough (since 2009) that these types of products populate their own little sub-category within the brand. From pirates to tattoos, the classic skull motifs we have mostly seen from the Paris-based brand are now supplemented by a contemporary (if not futuristic) skull-themed watch that Bell Ross calls th [...]

2021 has seen the trend of green dials spread far and wide across the watch industry, with verdant versions of classic watch models popping up in nearly every market segment. Parisian tool watch specialist Bell Ross has thrown its hat into the ring on this trend with its latest release, but rather than simply adding green to an existing design the brand has used t [...]

In September 2019, Paris-based Bell Ross debuted its most ambitious watch in years: the Bell Ross BR 05 ( hands-on here). The BR 05 (BR05) was ambitious because, for the first time, Bell Ross was producing a watch simply designed to look and feel good, as opposed to needing inspiration from a particular world of sport or activity (such as flying, racing, or div [...]

The integrated bracelet steel sports watch category is one of the fastest growing and most competitive segments of the current luxury watch industry. A wide spectrum of brands have thrown hats into this particular ring, but few new designs have gathered as much attention as the Bell Ross BR 05 series. For its latest release, Bell Ross has taken its first major effort toward [...]

With a wide, flight instrument inspired square case paired to a conventional diver dial, the Bell Ross BR 03-92 Diver has always been something of an unorthodox entry in the luxury dive watch market. For summer 2020, the brand has returned to this adaptation of its signature design for a new variant that turns away from some traditional dive watch cues and embraces [...]

Paris-based Bell Ross has always been a fashionable brand, and products like the BR 03-92 White Camo (reference BR0392-CG-CE/SCA) help prove it. Even though Bell Ross products are all deeply inspired by tools and the people who use them, the brand is rarely shy to release timepieces which are patently artistic or merely fashionable when the situation merits it [...]

Aviation has always been at the core of the Bell Ross brand ethos. From its very earliest pilot watches onward, the marque has always turned its eye towards flight, and nowhere is this inspiration more literal than in the cockpit instrument-themed BR 03 series. For the latest interpretation in the series, Bell Ross has taken aim at one of the centerpieces of the modern figh [...]

One of the more recent and rather attractive limited-edition Bell Ross BR03 watches is the BR 03-92 MA-1, which is inspired by the famed green and orange military jacket design. Paris-based Bell Ross is really at its fashionable best, once again adopting something from the military to the high-end fashion world in a unique way that ultimately creates something entire [...]

Sponsored Post written for by advertiserWhen Bell Ross goes vintage, its design codes take on a military quality, with an obvious commitment to the utility, design, and function of watches that are built for important missions. The three new models in the BR V2 series are a tribute to military wristwatches for land, air and sea. All three are equipped with NATO [...]

Sponsored Post written for by advertiserBell Ross, the brand that made cockpit instrumentation the coolest thing in watch wear, had a great year in 2019. In September, it launched the wildly successful BR 05 series, an evolution of its iconic BR03 model but with a more urban interpretation of the instrumentation aesthetic. This was followed in October with a stunning blue-dia [...]

The biggest news from Bell Ross for 2019 is the introduction of the Bell Ross BR 05 collection that debuted here. The BR 05 is the first major new timepiece collection that Bell Ross has introduced for some time, and it is the first product whose design is directly influenced by watches Bell Ross has produced in the past. Several versions of the BR 05 watch are b [...]

A beaming smile radiated from the face of Bell Ross co-founder Carlos Rosillo as he presented his new baby to the team a few months before its official debut - the BR 05 collection. The Bell Ross BR 05 is the latest chapter in the Parisian brands ongoing saga to match modern fashion sensibility to the age-old pleasure of wearing an instrument on the wrist. Unlike most o [...]