The Bell & Ross – BR 123 Sport Heritage ($2325) pays tribute to the the 1960’s. You can easily see this in the bezel and the indices and hands covered in a sand-colored vintage looking photo-luminescent coating. The BR123 features a mechanical automatic movement, and standard functions like hours, minutes, seconds, and date. It comes with a 43mm polished steel case, a fixed black bezel, and a screw-in sapphire case-back with anti-reflective treatment. The whole unit is capped off with an ant-reflective ultra-dome sapphire glass. Water-resistance is only about 100 meters, so its probably OK for showering and a quick dip. Not to be used for serious diving.
The Casio G-Shock Premium GW-A1000-1AER Watch ($520) is the G-Shock for grown-ups. This GW-A1000 model features a quartz movement, large 52mm case, and water-resistance to 20 ATM. Some of the coolest features are its solar powered radio signal reception (Europe, Japan, China, United States) and extreme shock resistance due to impacts, vibrations, and g-forces. It […]