The BR-05 Honest White Lum is generally your normal BR-05 stainless-steel. It has the identical built-in tapering bracelet, the identical 40mm sq. case with 100m of water resistance and the identical Sellita SW300-based automated motion inside.
The place the watch differentiates itself is on the dial, the place there are a number of attention-grabbing issues happening.
The engaging red-on-white colour scheme isn’t employed typically sufficient within the watch trade.Bell & Ross
First, and most clearly, is the colour. The dial itself is white whereas every little thing on it — the fingers, indices and all textual content, together with the date — are brick crimson. White and crimson is a colour mixture that isn’t seen typically sufficient within the watch world — I’ve at all times been keen on Farer’s Bernina Chronograph — and it seems to be dynamite right here. The colours have been chosen to symbolize Singapore’s flag, which is, you guessed it, crimson and white.
The date window right here has additionally been tweaked. On the usual BR-05 Auto, the date is a regular rectangular window that replaces the index at 3:00. Right here, it’s been moved to a diminutive round cutout at 4:30. Say what you need about 4:30 date home windows, however I like this transfer. It’s fairly unobtrusive and permits for the addition of an enormous ol’ Arabic “3” index in that candy Bell & Ross font.
Lastly, and most importantly, is the lume on the dial. You’ve in all probability observed that, whereas there may be lume on the fingers, there isn’t any on the indices. That’s as a result of your entire dial is lumed with blue-emission Grade X2 Tremendous-LumiNova, the brightest, longest-lasting lume made by the Swiss illumination big.
