Model History
If the BR 01 and BR 03 tell the brand's "cockpit instrument" soul, the BR V2 represents the other face of Bell & Ross: that of the Vintage collection, launched to bring back into the light the brand's less visible heritage, tied to pilot and naval military watches produced in the mid-twentieth century. Unlike the square lines, the BR V2 adopts a round case, with softer shapes, a graduated rotating bezel and a graphic layout that directly recalls the flight and navigation instruments of that era.
Presented in its "Steel Heritage" guise with a matte black dial and skeletonized indices and hands coated in a Super-LumiNova® with a characteristic "aged" color, the BR V2 explicitly plays the card of historical patina: a watch designed to look as though it truly came out of a military depot decades ago, while fitted with components and finishes of current production.
Around the BR V2 the brand has over time built an entire family of thematic variants — from chronograph executions to series inspired by the French naval military (Aéronavale), to "Bellytanker" models, dedicated to the speed-record cars born by repurposing the drop tanks of World War II aircraft — thereby expanding the Vintage collection's historical narrative well beyond aviation alone.
Technical Specifications
Main Executions
Some "Bellytanker" variants of the BR V2 family take their name from the postwar American speed-record cars built by repurposing the drop tanks ("belly tanks") of World War II fighter planes: an unusual historical reference, which widens the Vintage collection's narrative from military aviation to the world of land speed racing.