As the caseback suggests, and probably enhanced by the use of a solid caseback, the Ball Watches Vs Breitling Replica is ranked as antimagnetic. Naturally, I am not going to only trust Ball with this so I chose to magnetize the watch and determine exactly how much it would take.Just kidding. For now we’ll just have to go by Ball’s official rating.Although not Ball’s error, I’d be remiss if I didn’t point out the fact that black dialed watches (this one is also available in gray or white) are very prone to glare. Here you get a great view of the blue sky from the crystal of the watch.Despite the use of a buckle, so I found this to be one of the greatest leather straps I’ve worn.The black alligator has a great deal of personality and just the perfect amount of pliancy.The seem only compliments the Ball therefore perfectly.As I mentioned, this watch employs a buckle rather than a deployant clasp, but what a good looking buckle. If I can’t have a deployant, I need this.I did temporarily wear the Ball RLC and discovered it to be very comfortable and one of the very best leather straps I’ve worn. I’m very impressed with the wear comfort of this watch. Add a deployant and it’d happen to be perfect.The 2836 is basically a variant of this ultra-popular 2824 having an additional day complication. The COSC rating guarantees precision to within +6/-4 seconds per day. In the brief time I had the opinion, I unscientifically quantified an excellent +2 per day. Keep in mind, however, that those amounts were dial up and off-wrist, meaning I likely would have achieved slightly greater numbers if I had been wearing this watch each day, and given a potential break in period. These are basically the same numbers one could expect to see on a much more costly Rolex or Omega.
Back in 2012, Ball watches made the interesting announcement that they would be producing watches in collaboration with BMW cars – and I thought that was pretty cool. aBlogtoWatch debuted the Ball for BMW watch collection and later went hands-on here. For 2015, Ball has quietly released one new piece in the Ball for BMW watch family with the TimeTrekker collection that includes both blue and black dial versions, as well as the watch on either a steel metal bracelet or a rubber strap.
One of the highlights of the Ball for BMW collection (aside from it being designed by the very talented watch designer Magali Metrailler) is that the BMW branding is rather subtle on the dial. That means the fact that the watch is by Ball but with BMW branding is not “in your face.” A small and tasteful BMW logo exists in a petite form next to the 3 o’clock hour indicator. The logo is there when the wearer wants to be reminded of it, but isn’t even readily apparent to others who view the watch on the wearer’s wrist.
The Ball Watches Endurance Replica for BMW TimeTrekker is essentially a watch with the time and a day/date complication. Ball uses a modified version of a Swiss ETA 2836 automatic movement. According to Ball, the movement is given their Amortiser shock protection system. This essentially allows the wearer to twist the back of the watch case in order to lock the automatic rotor from spinning.
The Ball for BMW TimeTrekker watches we saw hands-on were pre-production prototypes, but the case backs still displayed a cool BMW logo-inspired grid that nonetheless allowed for a splendid view of the movement inside. The movement features Ball’s Amortiser system mentioned above, a feature patented by Ball. The point of it is to help prevent damage to the watch from shock. The catch, of course, is that you need to anticipate when the watch might experience shock in advance. The Amortiser locks the automatic rotor from spinning so that the movement is more protected from the effect of a serious shock.
Of course, when the automatic rotor is locked, it will not turn, and thus, the watch movement will not “self wind.” While the Amortiser feature is cool and works as advertised, it is not something that I think most watch wearers will utilize on a regular basis. In reviewing the 8 Ball Watches Replica Engineer Hydrocarbon Spacemaster II Orbital watch here (that also features the complication) I recall finding the Amortiser system a fun, albeit difficult feature to use for real world applications.
Ball calls this base Swiss ETA movement their caliber RR11002-C, and in addition to the Amortiser system, this 4Hz mechanical movement is provided with COSC Chronometer certification for accuracy. It isn’t clear whether or not the movement will be visible through the caseback window on the final versions.
At 44mm wide in the brushed and polished steel case, the Ball for BMW TimeTrekker is a decent 13.45mm thick. I recall it wearing very comfortably and liking the look of the case a lot. Sure, you could go with the available “rubberized leather strap,” but why not opt for the specially designed (and good-looking) matching steel bracelet. The bracelet not only tapers (which is a sign of great design) but also has some nice edge polishing that I like.
Water resistant to 200 meters and anti-magnetic to 4,800A/m, the Ball Watches Malaysia Price Replica for BMW TimeTrekker is a solid sports watch. Of course, this is a dive-style timepiece with a uni-directional rotating bezel that uses a black ceramic insert (good for scratch resistance). Also, the bezel numeral markers are applied with luminant. The dial is also very “diver style” with easy to read hands and a lot of nice details thanks to Magali. You get the look of a Ball for BMW design, but there is something also very decently refined in this look. I don’t drive a BMW at all, but I would still easily wear this timepiece.
Being a Ball, the dial is, of course, outfitted with tritium gas tubes for darkness illumination. You have more traditional round tritium gas tubes in the hands and at the 5, 6, and 7 o’clock hour markers, while the rest of the hour markers use larger, fatter tubes with blue colored tritium lume material. That is except for the 12 o’clock hour marker that uses a cool red colored “fat” tritium tube. There are a total of 14 tritium tubes on the dial.
An interesting design feature on the dial are the different styles of hour markers at the bottom of the dial. This happens to work very well for the Ball Watches Diver Replica for BMW TimeTrekker design, but was, in my opinion, a brave move which could have only come from a very seasoned watch designer.
The black Ball for BMW TimeTrekker dial is bit more on the conservative, timeless side, while the dark blue dial is a bit more hip and contemporary. The blue isn’t necessarily quite as classy as the black dial, but it does have a more sporty, youthful feel. The Ball for BMW collection most certainly exists as a niche within the larger Ball brand, but it is uniquely well done and the BMW connection is probably going to be important for a lot of Ball fans. With that said, even if you don’t have BMW or are ambivalent to the car maker, the Ball for BMW TimeTrekker is still a very solid watch that is different from anything else that Ball produces. Price is $2,999 on a strap and $3,099 on the bracelet. ballwatch.com
I never supposed that a universe timer dive watch would be helpful, but think about the fact that it is popular enough for Ball watches to have produced a second run of them. Because this is the very first review of this type of watch, we can majority the older and the new together. What they upgraded for the reference DG2022A-S3AJ-BK / DG2022A-P3AJ-BK Ball Engineer Master II Diver Worldtime watch is really just the dial. Compared to the first from 2010, the 2016 versions look a little more sporty and sporty, in my opinion, but the gaps for the new version are rather tiny. Ball points to the fact that the new versions have upgraded technology, but exactly what that signifies is unclear.Ball suggests that the technology which provides the world time complication is in-house. That is because they constructed a module over a base Swiss ETA automatic movement which unite to form the Ball grade RR1501. In addition to the time, date, and day of the week, the motion has a 24-hour world time sign ring that’s popular on both sport and dress watches nowadays. It was brands like Jaeger-LeCoultre and Girard-Perregaux that helped make this very handy type of complication something people wanted to see in sport watches.