The U.S. States Army Air Corps standardized paint colors for use on military assets in 1939. The Joint Aircraft Committee’s Subcommittee on Standardization elected to apply the the ANA (Army Navy Aircraft) color standard. This color standard produced ANA 616, also known as Desert Sand.
The Watch Line
Similar to Olive Drab, this color originates to define military equipment, and also to everyone it’s instantly recognizable as something purely tactical, in addition to functional. So it’s no wonder that Bell & Ross find the color plan for that dial from the new Bell & Ross V2-92 Military Automatic sports replica watch. The organization makes a reputation, and defined a name, with large square-cased watches designed after cockpit instrumentation.
However the V2-92 is certainly not like individuals, rather it attentively straddles numerous traditional watch groups. The V2-92 has got the face of the field watch, the bezel of the dive watch, and also the personality of something directly from Operation Desert Shield. There is a certain good balance to this watch that’s tricky to find the models typically connected with Bell & Ross don’t quite exemplify exactly the same kind of utilitarian design the Bell & Ross V2-92 Military replica watch will get right.
The Watch Case
It is a total military mash-up, with elements of design lent from field watches and watches for diving packaged inside a thin case. The domed very adds extra thickness, for as many as 12mm thickness overall, but because of the thin case and domed very you’ll still obtain a very wearable watch.
The late ’80s saw the appearance of the Desert Fight Dress Uniform because the US military presence in desert regions elevated. It had been nicknamed “cookie dough camouflage” because of its hues of tan and brown. The Bell & Ross V2-92 Automatic replica seems like it might have been issued right alongside this fight dress uniform, but tend to it endure exactly the same rigors?
The Watch Bezel
A hundred meters water resistance puts it nearer to field watch territory compared to the dive watch camp, and also the bi-directional bezel does not provide the same kind of safety like a unidirectional bezel, however i don’t believe this is actually the watch to consider diving anyway. It’s a kind of do-it-all see a jack of trades that sacrifices doing one factor very well to be able to perform a good job in the mixture of cases a day to day watch can be used for.
I do not think the prospective demographic will require any points off for that one-in-a-million chance that the bezel will get pushed off with a couple of clicks underwater. From the purely practical perspective, a bi-directional bezel will work better anyway if you have mitts on, you need to turn the bezel minimal quantity of distance possible.
What this means is the fact that typical “bezel slop” is not present, rather you receive an affirmative click either in direction. A presentation caseback might also lead towards the level water resistance, however it frames the gently finished BR-CAL.302 nicely. As the enthusiast world might have a problem with date wheels, the Swiss industry in general just does not appear to wish to allow them go.
The Watch Dial
Naturally, there’s to start dating ? wheel about this model, but it is integrated so attentively it should not bother the most cranky no-date purist. The date wheel is color matched, which is not a typical black or white-colored-dialed watch, either. It is a very specific shade of military beige, and also the window is quite small. Again, this watch strikes an admirable balance between typically competing camps.
The replica Bell & Ross V2-92 wears exactly the same typography as other Bell & Ross watches, however it seems softer, and also the domed very distorts and diffuses it in a manner that tones lower the boldness found of a few of the better-known models within the line. The bracelet also features polished center links.
It balances the hardcore tool watch aesthetic, but it is another thing you’d never find on the watch which was really engineered for that military in the current era, anyway. You’ll, however, locate an elastic canvas strap made famous through the Marine Nationale, incorporated using the V2-92. Initially, the legend goes, paratroopers fashioned straps for his or her issued watches in the stretchy parachute webbing.
The Watch History
The Bell & Ross strap features color-matched desert tan-accented black paracord. The “vintage-inspired” branding is possibly manifested within the domed very, however this watch certainly channels an early on era of Bell & Ross, a period once the nascent company released watches such as the Type Démineur, a wrist watch created for explosive device disposal units, or even the Space 3, a chrono that simply screams “shuttle era.”
Bell & Ross watches were initially created by tool watch maker Sinn the V2-92 shares many of the same design language because the Sinn-era Bell & Ross models, and that is an excellent factor. Collectors are actually thinking about watches in the ’80s and ’90s as “vintage,” and also the V2-92 is branded like a vintage-inspired timepiece.
The Watch Movement
The style of the timepiece, similar to those of the A-10 Warthog that shined throughout the Desert Shield conflict in 1990, works equally well in 2019. The replica Bell & Ross BR V2-92 Military Beige: 41mm x 12mm, 100 meters water proofing, with domed azure very and azure caseback. Steel bezel with anodized black aluminum ring bi-directional with 1 hour scale screw-lower crown. Movement, BR-CAL 302 (Sellita SW-300-1 base) 28,800 vph, 38 hour power reserve. On the steel bracelet, $3,200 with an elastic canvas strap, $2900.
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More Technical Data
Movement: calibre BR-CAL.302. Automatic mechanical.
Functions: hrs, minutes, seconds and date.
case: 41 mm across. Satin-polished steel. Bi-directional rotating steel bezel with anodised black aluminium ring and 60-minute scale. Screw-lower crown. Azure case back.
Dial: beige. Black colored numerals and indices. Metal skeletonised Super-LumiNova?-filled hour and minute hands
ultra-curved azure with anti-reflective coating.
Water-resistance: 100 metres.
Strap: elastic canvas strap or satin-polished steel bracelet.
Buckle: folding for metal bracelet.
Ref: BRV292-BEI-ST/SF
