Bell & Ross Teams with Alain Silberstein for Black Ceramic Trio

From JustLuxe contented spouse iW Magazine

Bell & Ross’s Carlos Rosillo and Bruno Belamich person teamed with ticker plan fable Alain Silberstein to make a trio of watches that harvester Silberstein’s colorful shapes with a achromatic ceramic mentation of Belamich’s aviation-inspired quadrate Bell & Ross BR 03 design.

United arsenic the 4th offering from Singapore-based Grail Watch, the 2 watchmakers person devised the Bell & Ross × Alain Silberstein Black Ceramic Trilogy, which consists of a BR 03 time-only exemplary with date, a BR 03 diving watch, and a BR 03 chronograph.

All 3 watches usage the present much common, smaller mentation of the BR 03 case. While the archetypal BR 01 measured 46mm × 46mm, the astir caller BR 03 collections measurement 42mm × 42mm, the size of each exemplary successful the caller Grail Watch collection.

Notably, nary of the watches features a marque logo.

“We decided to simply usage the ampersand that already features prominently successful our marque sanction due to the fact that the what amended awesome for a collaboration betwixt equals could you imagine?” says Belamich.

“With the chronograph, Carlos explained that the second's manus was by acold the largest 1 ever fitted to 1 of their watches, and we had to guarantee the reset relation worked perfectly each and each clip truthful it would align precisely astatine zero,” Silberstein adds.

“With the diving watch, we had to marque definite these immense oversized hands were arsenic airy arsenic possible, truthful they wouldn’t impact the wide precision of the movement. And past to marque a two-color ceramic bezel was a large challenge.”

The Bell & Ross x Alain Silberstein BR 03-92 Marine 22, showing ample hands.

Time & Date

The archetypal ticker successful the trio, the Bell & Ross x Alain Silberstein BR 03-92 Klub 22, is simply a time-only exemplary connected a matte achromatic ceramic lawsuit and jet-black dial.

The Bell & Ross x Alain Silberstein BR 03-92 Klub 22.

Silberstein’s monolithic manus plan creates a playful dial portion a ample bluish arrow indicates minutes and an S-shaped yellowish signifier indicates the seconds.

The dial is interrupted lone by the subtle day indicator. The ticker features an automatic question caliber BR.CAL-302 with day function. Priced astatine $4,400, it volition beryllium made successful 200 examples. 

The Dive Watch

The Bell & Ross x Alain Silberstein BR 03-92 Marine 22, the 2nd exemplary successful the trio, is simply a re-imagined dive model.

The Bell & Ross x Alain Silberstein BR 03-92 Marine 22.

Here Silberstein applies his “Maxi’ hands, which see a bluish circular hours manus and a ample reddish arrow. While some hands are liberally coated with luminescent material, the infinitesimal manus is peculiarly disposable owed to its captious elapsed dive clip function.

To that end, the decorator created a specialized two-tone ceramic bezel with the last 20 minutes of the insert colored reddish and a afloat acceptable of 20-minute markers with luminous indexes.

The Bell & Ross x Alain Silberstein BR 03-92 Marine 22 diver exemplary is extent rated to 300 meters, features a screw-down crown, and is powered by caliber BR.CAL-302, the aforesaid automatic question with day relation utilized successful the time-only model. It volition beryllium made successful a bid of 100 examples. Price: $5,600.

The Chronograph

The 3rd exemplary successful the bid is the Bell & Ross x Alain Silberstein BR 03 Krono 22, a chronograph with 5 of Silberstein’s celebrated Bauhaus-inspired hands.

The Bell & Ross x Alain Silberstein BR 03 Krono 22.

The hours are indicated by a reddish ellipse with a bluish arrow showing the minutes. Here, a yellowish S-shaped manus serves arsenic the chronograph seconds indicator portion a bluish triangle serves arsenic the indicator for the chronograph 30-minute counter, and a yellowish arrow displays continuous seconds.

Unlike the different 2 debuts, this exemplary offers a crown that features Silberstein’s signature reddish triangle.

The Bell & Ross x Alain Silberstein BR 03 Krono 22 is powered by the caliber BR.CAL-301 automatic chronograph question with date. Made successful 100 examples, the ticker is priced astatine $6,700.

Grail Watch is offering watches numbered 1 to 50 arsenic a container acceptable of each 3 timepieces, which volition get successful a Silberstein-designed collector’s box. Price for the set: $16,700.