Bell & Ross BR03-92 Diver FULL LUM

Let Bell & Ross illuminate your wrist with their newest glowing diver creation, the BR03-92 Diver Full Lum! Btw, that’s “Lum” not lume.



Bell & Ross first dipped their toe into the realm of diver’s watches back in 1997, when all I had to my name was a G-Shock and smile.

Okay, that’s actually a gross understatement (about the toes not the G-Shock) because the brand’s first diver did a little bit more than simply its wet toes.



Bell & Ross’ debut diver, the Hydromax had a water-resistant to 11,100 meters, thanks to a special case filled with hydraulic oil.

It would be a full decade on when the BR02 range launched in 2007; then the brand whose roots were firmly buried in the world of aviation went very silent (dive-watch-wise) for another decade.



It wasn’t until 2017 that the BR03-92 Diver with its now iconic square case based on the famous Bell & Ross instrument panel inspired design was introduced.

It was the starting point of an entire collection, which has expanded to include a BRONZE model as well as their first black CERAMIC model and now an eye-scorching new version, the BR03-92 Diver Full Lum.



All Bell & Ross BR03-92 Divers meet the stringent requirements defined by international standard ISO 6425, and so can be labeled as true diver’s watches.

These official regulations set out very specific criteria and list a great number of fundamental technical characteristics.



Those include water-resistance to a minimum depth of 100m; the presence of a unidirectional rotational bezel with a dive-time scale, an operation indicator and lumed markers; legibility in the dark; anti-shock and anti-magnetic protection.

Optimum legibility is key when diving and could even be considered critical. This btw is also one of Bell & Ross’ main philosophies and one of its guiding principles.



To that extent, the BR 03-92 Diver Full Lum has been created to perfectly fulfill this essential requirement.

The design of the watch plays with inverted contrasts, flipping a typical face design by using luminous material for the entire face with clean black hands and markers for maximum contrast.



Bell & Ross has adapted its Lum concept to its diver’s family by revering the traditional principles of day and night legibility.

The BR03-92 Diver Full Lum also makes use of different shades of luminescence. While its metal basis dial is fully coated with a paint made of green Superluminova C5 pigments –



its metal applique skeletonized indices and the bezel’s numerals are filled with green Superluminova C3.

This ultra-phosphorescent green light has a very long durability in the dark, offering a continued optimal reading of time even in complete darkness.



Thanks to this most resistant, intense, and innovative variant, the time indications – that must be readable at 25cm in the dark - create a green on green contrast on the dial.

The idea is to switch the contrasts. In the daylight, its modern lines underline the essential. The display of this timepiece meets with a graphic dial and large indices.



The 42mm case is cut in a deep matte black ceramic and emphasizes the almond green color of the dial.

When night diving or when reaching abyssal depth, its subtle shades turn into an explosion of light. The luminescent dial say B&R; “illuminates like a punch of light”.



Thoughts? Okay, so the use of a full lume dial in itself is nothing new neither is using different shades of lume, but it's how they have done it - it's lume on lume and it's very cool!

B&R appear to have nailed the full-lume look in a unique way plus it’s got a tasty ceramic case, oh and it’s a pretty great looking diver, to boot.



So a great dive watch full stop, or for the serious collector, perhaps the addition of at least one full-lume watch in your collection is no bad thing, could this be it?

For me the dial shade with those chunky black-edged lumed hour markers makes not only for excellent contrast, it’s super attractive, too. I would quite like one of these. How bout’ you?