Bell & Ross‘s now-iconic BR 01 Instrument, its first wristwatch inspired by airplane cockpit clocks, debuted in 2005 and established the French-Swiss brand’s modern identity. Since 2010, Bell & Ross has expanded on the theme with its Flight Instrument collection, a series of timepieces that take their cues from other onboard instruments, such as gyrocompasses and variometers. This year sees the release of the BR 03-92 Red Radar Ceramic, the latest creative take on one of the family’s most quirky and inventively designed members, inspired by a radar screen.

The Red Radar model has been updated with new dial details and a black ceramic case.

Like the original Red Radar, which debuted in 2011, the new model’s dial reproduces the scanning motion of a light beam on an onboard radar screen. Rotating under a translucent red sapphire crystal are two ultra-light, concentric disks that replace conventional hour and minute hands. In a major update from the previous Red Radar models, these disks now host two miniature screen-printed planes ? a passenger plane on the larger outermost disk for the hours, a fighter plane on the smaller disk nearer the center for the minutes. Like the real-life aircraft they represent, the two planes travel at different speeds: the larger one circles the dial every 12 hours, the smaller one every 60 minutes. The hours scale is printed on the underside of the sapphire crystal, and a slim, red-painted central analog han...