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Ball Watch Company – Pushing the Frontier

Ball Watch Company is all about pushing the frontiers, and we like that. An earlier posting featured a diver who wears Ball Watch pieces while diving into blue holes–dark caverns under the ocean. Moreover, since space is the “final frontier,” we’d expect to see Ball’s watches there as well. They didn’t disappoint. Brian Binnie, a [...]

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Ball Watches – Into the Blue

A “blue hole” has to be one of the most terrifying things a diver can encounter. As if diving weren’t already dangerous and difficult enough, these bottomless ocean pits offer a chance to really push the limits. Located all over the world, blue holes aren’t quite bottomless, but they can extend to a depth of [...]

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Ball's new Engineer Hydrocarbon Spacemaster Glow

On 4th October, 2004, Brian Binnie piloted the private rocket SpaceShipOne into a new era of space flight. This rocket became the first privately funded rocket to exceed Mach 3 and to reach over 100 km in altitude. SpaceShipOne is also the first privately funded manned spacecraft that is re-usable. To celebrate this truly great [...]

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The Ball Watch: Legible Day and Night

From the outset in 1891 Webster Clay Ball, founder of the Ball Watch Company, established very exacting legibility standards for his watches. Easy legibility has been a defining motto for Ball’s watches ever since. And now the technology enabling 24 hour legibility is much more sophisticated than it was in the early Ball watches. Today, [...]

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Having a Ball on the Orient Express


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Earlier this month a select group of Journalists, specialist retailers and a number of high profile individuals were invited by Ball Watch Company to a rather special evening on board the Orient Express.

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