Bell & Ross Antimagnetic Chronograph

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REF V-126-XL

Automatic

42.5 MM

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SKU	AS07770
Article Number	40990621
ref	V-126-XL
case size	42.5 MM
movement	Automatic Winding
approximate age	2000s
dial color	Brown
material	Stainless Steel
style	Chronograph
category	Pre-Owned Contemporary
bracelet	Leather
lug width	20 MM
Includes	Signed brown leather strap with signed steel deployant clasp. Also includes inner and outer boxes, books, repair certificate dated 1/18/2022, and warranty card dated 8/18/2006.
overall condition	The case is in fantastic condition overall showing only faint signs of wear from age and use. Luminous matte brown dial with 'Arabic' indices is in as-new condition with matching 'sword' handset. Signed crown. Sapphire exhibition caseback.

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REF V-126-XL

Automatic

42.5 MM

– Show less

SKU	AS07770
Article Number	40990621
ref	V-126-XL
case size	42.5 MM
movement	Automatic Winding
approximate age	2000s
dial color	Brown
material	Stainless Steel
style	Chronograph
category	Pre-Owned Contemporary
bracelet	Leather
lug width	20 MM
Includes	Signed brown leather strap with signed steel deployant clasp. Also includes inner and outer boxes, books, repair certificate dated 1/18/2022, and warranty card dated 8/18/2006.
overall condition	The case is in fantastic condition overall showing only faint signs of wear from age and use. Luminous matte brown dial with 'Arabic' indices is in as-new condition with matching 'sword' handset. Signed crown. Sapphire exhibition caseback.

Why We Love it

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There is perhaps no more versatile complication than the chronograph.

From race cars to rocket ships, boats to battlefields, you are likely to find a chronograph being employed to measure a plethora of tasks and times. From the Greek khrónos (‘time’) and gráphō (‘to write’), a chronograph is a watch that has the ability to record time, generally via the addition of small sub-counters that register minutes and hours.

Bell & Ross has been making excellent chronographs since the 1990s — first, in concert with German watchmaker Sinn, and then on its own. This Reference V-126-XL-BRO from circa 2006 is a perfect example of the brand’s watchmaking; handsome and utilitarian, it perfectly fulfills the brief of an excellent tool watch, boasting antimagnetic qualities and 200m of water resistance.

Housed in a 42.5mm stainless steel case with a sapphire crystal, a signed crown, dual barrel pushers, and a polished bezel, it features a matte brown dial with luminous ‘Arabic’ indices, an outer tachymeter scale, a lumed ‘sword’ handset, a dual-register chronograph, and a date window at 4:30.

Viewable via a sapphire exhibition caseback is a reliable, automatic ETA 2894-2 chronograph movement with 42 hours of power reserve, while a brown leather strap with a signed, stainless steel deployant clasp finishes the package. It also comes with some of its factory goodies and its recent repair certificate.

This is a ton of watch for the money, folks — don’t let this one slip through your fingers!

Brand Story

Few individuals have done more for the development of the modern tool watch than Helmut Sinn. A renowned pilot and flight instructor, Sinn founded his eponymous company in Germany in 1961 and would go on to design some of the world’s most utilitarian chronograph and dive watches for specialized purposes. Though he sold the company in the 1990s after more than 30 years of continuous operations, Sinn’s own clock went on ticking until the age of 102.

Initially focusing on the manufacture of pilot’s chronographs and clocks, Sinn operated by a unique (for the time) direct sales model, whereby he cut out the retailer and middleman and was able to offer competitive pricing. In the 1980s the firm took on the service contract for the Heuer-produced 1550 SG flyback chronograph issued to the German Budeswehr — today, it’s possible to find models at auction or on the secondary market with Sinn-signed replacement dials.

Sinn’s reference 156 Military Chronograph — powered by the famed Lemania caliber 5100 — did not win a military tender for supply to NATO and BUND forces. (That honor would go to Porsche Design/Orfina for its reference 7177.) However, the chunky reference 140 (also powered by the caliber 5100) did accompany German astronaut Reinhard Furrer into orbit on the Spacelab D1 mission in 1985.

Following Helmut Sinn’s sale of the company to engineer Lothar Schmidt in 1994, Sinn would begin supplying specialized military kit of its own. In 1997, the company released the EZM1, a unique, left-handed chronograph with a central minutes counter that was adopted by the Zentrale Unterstützungsgruppe Zoll, a tactical unit of Germany’s Customs Service. (The newer EZM 2B was subsequently adopted by GSG9’s diving unit — a special force within the tactical unit of the German Federal Police.)

More recently, in 2005, the company released the U1, a professional dive watch made with submarine steel that featured a 1,000-meter depth rating. (2020’s U50 downsized the gargantuan 44mm case to a more manageable 41mm, attracting plaudits internationally.)
Today, Sinn continues to manufacture no-nonsense chronographs, dive watches, and even dress timepieces that earn the respect of watch consumers and professionals worldwide.

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