Thomas_3
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Ball Watches
Can anyone here tell me a little something about Ball watches?
Last night they popped up on my screen, OK, they had a little
help. I looked things over and there are a couple of offerings
I may be interested. I'j just like a kid in a candy store with $5
when it come to looking at watches,
Ball Watches
Can anyone here tell me a little something about Ball watches? Last night they popped up on my screen, OK, they had a little help. I looked things over and there are a couple of offerings I may be interested. I'j just like a kid in a candy store with $5 w...
Hello Thomas. I'll weigh-in here. I'm a Ball advocate, though of late I've been turned off by their sales strategy.
To begin, you should read my longish post, "The Enviable Accuracy of the Ball Engineer II Red Label Chronometer GMT….." (search under Horological Meandering). This details (uh… that's putting it mildly) my own experience with a model no longer in producti...
I had two. They were well made, used good eta movements that kept good time. When both were fairly new, if I had them both in my bedside drawer and opened it at 2am the whole
drawer was illuminated. That brilliance does fade over time though. 15-20 yeears down the road they are still readable but far dimmer. Eventually the tubes die. They have too many models. I know a large store owner who was an AD and about 7 years ago (gue...
I got a couple of ballwatches.
Nothing bad so say about it. Most of their models are ETA based movement with soprod module for the complicated models. They came out with their own movement around 2 years back which is elegant but not at the the price point I would consider. Ballwatch w...
