Few watch manufacturers can claim as much direct aviation-instrument influence across their entire portfolio as Bell & Ross, and few horological complications are more useful to a pilot than an indication of multiple time zones ? so what better brand to produce a timepiece capable of displaying not just two but three time zones simultaneously than the one with the big ampersand logo and dashboard DNA" Here is the lowdown on the new BR v2-93 GMT 24H.
Bell & Ross BRV2-93 GMT 24H has a bicolor 24-hour bezel that can be rotated to indicate a third time zone.
At 41 mm in diameter in a 100-meter-water-resistant steel case, the watch fits seamlessly into Bell & Ross’s Vintage collection, with rounded lugs that curve to hug the wrist and a screw-down crown. The sapphire crystal over the dial is domed and treated with nonreflective coating ? advantageous in any low-light situation, including a dark airplane cockpit. The satin-polished steel case body is fronted by a bidirectional, bicolor 24-hour GMT bezel, whose inset disk is made of aluminum. The black sectors of the disk represent nighttime hours, the gray area daytime hours. The stark black dial, with large white numerals and indices coated in Super-LumiNova, takes its design cues from the colors used for an aircraft’s onboard flight instruments, which are predominantly black to avoid reflections. The central GMT hand stands out with its orange arrow tip, orange being the third color, along with blac...