Can't find a B&R dealer around me but I have this watch on my to buy list:

B&R BR01-96



Seems like a thoroughly obnoxious and cool addition to my collection. Anyone own a B&R like this?

Corn

 

Thoroughly obnoxious? Check!

Cool? Most definitely NOT. They make seasoned watch collectors cringe because of the brand's bullshit faux history marketing scheme.

 

Always admired a Bell & Ross my old boss used to wear. What have they faked in there history?

 

What history? It's all made up.

 

I've said this before and I'll say it again.

8 years ago I liked the square B&R's but I had a feeling they would quickly go out of style and look horrible. Turns out I was right.

Currently I think the style would make an awesome high end techy dive watch, but they would never do it.

 

Oh fair enough. Seem to do quite well for a brand that makes stuff up, compared to less successful companies with genuine history that fade away.

 

Charge enough money for crap, and people will believe anything.

 

Most B&R dealers have big collections of those... And it seems they like to show them but not sell them ...

Those watches scream "I have bad enough taste for a Hublot but can't afford one"...

 

... Nor real altimeters..

 

But then again people don't seem so harsh with Blancpain...

 

"Seem" is the operative word in your sentence...

 

"Anyone own a B&R like this?"
Does anyone here own a B&R? Is a better question.

 

I don't like the overpriced junk part because that makes it hard to flip if I hate it. I will look at one in person.

 

Then, if you do like it, you can look at the pre-owned market.

 

This x100

I know 3 local dealers that have pulled B&R due to low sales. They are flooding the used market as they go out of style. That being said B&R make some decent looking non square watches.

 

That't the plan.

 

Purchased by Captain Jack Sparrow. He paid in gold coins

 

Phantom now living in Malaysia?

 

By snapped up you mean .... stolen, right?