Bell & Ross built its name on the BR-01, a wristwatch that copied the round-gauge-in-a-square-plate look of a cockpit instrument. The BR-05, launched in 2019, is the domesticated version of that idea: the same circle within a square, but with rounded edges and an integrated bracelet aimed at the steel sports-watch market. The GMT model now gains a fourth colour, a sunray sage green, and nothing else changes. Monochrome covered it on 4 August 2026, with the full details and pricing.
A dial in three coats
The case is unchanged: 41mm across and a slim 11mm thick, in satin-brushed and polished steel, with a screw-down crown flanked by integrated guards, sapphire front and back, and 100m of water resistance. It sits in the middle of the BR-05 range, between the 40mm time-only model and the 42mm chronograph.
The news is entirely in the dial. Bell & Ross builds the green in three stages: a sunray-brushed metal base, a tinted green lacquer, then a transparent varnish for depth and durability. The result shifts between a muted green and a metallic silver depending on the light. Rhodium-plated applied indices and the oversized Arabic numerals at 12, 6 and 9 keep the familiar BR-05 layout, and the skeletonised hands and arrow-tipped GMT hand are filled with white Super-LumiNova X1. A two-tone green and silver-grey 24-hour scale runs around the edge of the dial, splitting day from night for the second time zone.
An office GMT, not a traveller's
Under the sapphire back is the calibre BR-CAL.325-1, a Sellita SW330-2 with a 54-hour reserve. It is worth being precise about what it does: this is a caller, or office, GMT, in which the central GMT hand is set independently while the main hands stay put. That is the arrangement for someone tracking a second time zone from a desk, rather than the traveller's GMT that jumps the local hour hand on landing. On top of the hours, minutes and central seconds there is a date at 3 o'clock, tucked into the 24-hour scale.
The BR-05 GMT Green Steel comes on the integrated steel bracelet or a matching green rubber strap, and joins the permanent collection rather than arriving as a limited run. On the bracelet it is EUR 5,800, reference BR05G-GN-ST/SST; on rubber it is EUR 5,300, reference BR05G-GN-ST/SRB.
Green, again
Green dials have been the industry's default reach for novelty for a few years now, and this is Bell & Ross following a well-worn path rather than breaking one. The more interesting point is a GMT complication at this price, in a case that has quietly become one of the more convincing integrated-bracelet designs outside the two or three watches everyone names first. The colour is the headline; the movement and the case are the reasons to look.
