I’ve been looking at Ball watches for a while, respect their heritage and there’s something to be said for a watch loaded with 100 gas tubes at night :)

I had narrowed down to the Starlight 40 (full trit numbers, and I like day-date) or the Fireman PVD. That latter is on sale at $1100 from $2100. Jomashop doesn’t have the Starlight, but the Engineer III is $950 down from $1800, and the power reserve is at $1450 down from $3155.

Anyway, I’m asking the community a few questions here-

- Ball, amazing watches? Not worth the fuss? My SOTC is a few high end pieces, and a bunch of dive/tool/field watches of varying quality and microbrands. I don’t have much that’s like, say, a Grand Seiko format. I could save my money for those, or get one of these from Ball.

- Are ball watches regularly discounted? Is this whole “$1000 coupon” thing a regular deal, or is this a sweet opportunity that I have to jump on today?

- If I’m getting a Ball, am I on the right track to get one of the three pictured? Or just go buy that starlight 40 full price? Or is there something else that’s the ‘quintessential’ Ball if I’m only buying one?

Thanks all.

  • nenzshejensbsk@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I had a marvelight it was really good for the simple reason that the tritium lume is so strong yiu can almost read a book by it. I really miss waking up in middle of night and being able to see the time without a light that wakes me up and then I can’t go back to sleep. If ball had an engineer cosc in 36-38mm I would buy again. I ended up selling my marvelight as it needed repair, but to be fair, I was wearing it surfing all the time and it’s not really designed for that