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Bell & Ross Introduces BR 03-92 Diver White Bronze Diver's Watch For the past few years, Bell & Ross has been focusing on its BR 05 line of modern sports watches – and for good reason. The BR 05 collection follows the classic Bell & Ross style, but in a sleek, understated integrated sports watch package. However, if you've been following the brand, aggressive square-cased gauges are likely the first thing that comes to mind when you think of this Parisian brand. Fortunately, Bell & Ross hasn't abandoned its roots. For Watches and Wonders 2023, Bell & Ross presents the BR 03-92 Diver White Bronze, a new dive watch that juxtaposes style, material and color to bring out the freshness of vintage Bell & Ross in the best possible way sex.

Bell & Ross is a brand that embraces contrast. Based in Paris but made in Switzerland (after an early life in Germany), the brand's signature style stems from the study of instruments found in aircraft cockpits. This translated into the BR 01 line of square case instrument watches, but has diversified over the years from pilot watches to multipurpose driven timepieces, from chronographs to dive watches to GMT watches, available in a variety of materials and colors For choice. Based on the platform of a century-old fighter plane, it creates an elegant and exquisite diving watch. It is wonderful to go against the trend.

With the new BR 03-92 Diver White Bronze, the brand keeps contradictions alive. In addition to incorporating dive watches into pilot cases, the brand has also chosen bronze as the case material for a contemporary case design and construction. Next, they contrasted the blocky and aggressive case design with a subdued opaline silver dial and vintage brown bezel insert. But here's the thing: it works. Bell & Ross has a knack for bringing contrasting styles and elements together.

We've been using bronze since the ancient Sumerians discovered copper- and tin-rich rocks in the Euphrates Valley, but in recent years the use of this ancient material has become popular in watchmaking due to its warm luster and never-fading stand up. Change to a patina that can be restored with a little elbow grease. For this new version, Bell & Ross used CuSn8 bronze made of 92% copper and 8% tin, a bronze reminiscent of fittings on old sailboats and classic yachts. Suitable for dive watches. The case measures 42mm, but as a square watch it will have plenty of presence on the wrist, especially when paired with Bell & Ross' wide lugs and wide strap.

The silver opal dial features rose gold-plated hour markers and gold-plated hands, all of which are filled with Super-LumiNova. The warm tones of the hands and indexes bring out the tone of the case, contrasting with the brown anodized aluminum bezel insert. Powering the Bell & Ross BR 03-92 Diver White Bronze is the BR-CAL302 automatic movement. Based on the Swiss-made Sellita SW300-1, the movement is robust for a 300m diver and will offer a 38-hour power reserve while beating at 28.8kbph.

The BR 03-92 Diver White Bronze may not look stylish, but at its core it is still a professional diver's watch that complies with ISO-6425 specifications. It was refreshing to see Bell & Ross go back to their roots with BR 03-92, but in a way that was fresh, colorful and hard to define. The Diver White Bronze is neither aggressively modern nor retro. It's elegantly sculpted and finished, but it's unmistakably in the tool watch camp. It's this contrasting style that makes the new BR 03-92 so captivating.