Bell & Ross Vintage Original Carbon Watches

by Ariel Adams (RSS feed)
Feb 25th 2011 at 12:01PM

More nice watches from Bell & Ross for 2011- with sort of silly names. The word game jumble continues. We had "Vintage and Heritage" used a lot. Now "Original" joins the mix with this new Bell & Ross Vintage Original Carbon. Come on Bell & Ross, isn't "vintage original" a bit of a silly redundancy. That would be like calling a watch "dark black." Anyhow, these new Vintage 123 and 126 models come in a 41mm steel case with a black PVD coating, and good looking matte black dial. To be honest, I am not 100% sure what is new about these 2011 pieces over the 2010 pieces aside from the brown calf leather strap. What I liked in 2010, I still like now.

The marketing material is sort of ridiculous. Bell & Ross doesn't even trying to use subtle imagery. They just flat out say, "the circular case is reminiscent of watches from a bygone era." Holy crap, you are right... I haven't seen one of these round cases watches in decades. Bell & Ross needs to send a memo to their PR/Marketing people that says "please ensure that future marketing material doesn't make the brand look like douches." I'll check out the watches happily and still want one of them on my wrist badly. For more details on the Bell & Ross Vintage 123 and 126 collection see here.

Ariel Adams publishes the luxury watch reviews site aBlogtoRead.com.

Tags: 123, 126, bell ross, carbon, original, vintage, watch, watches

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ecddesigns Feb 25th 2011 11:38PM

Vintage + Original = logical disconnect.

"the circular case is reminiscent of watches from a bygone era."

who passed that through?

ugh. [frowny face[

That aside, it is a nice looking watch.