Well, I'm here in America. By the way, do you see prices directly from the Ball site? I didn't see prices. What am I doing wrong? Are you looking directly at the site like CW or are you looking a pricing thought a distributor?

Russ

RSHETTLE wrote:Well, I'm here in America. By the way, do you see prices directly from the Ball site? I didn't see prices. What am I doing wrong? Are you looking directly at the site like CW or are you looking a pricing thought a distributor?

Russ

Check your PMs.

-Jim

RSHETTLE wrote:Well, I'm here in America. By the way, do you see prices directly from the Ball site? I didn't see prices. What am I doing wrong? Are you looking directly at the site like CW or are you looking a pricing thought a distributor?

Russ

Hi Russ,
The site I'm looking at is a UK online distributor: http://www.jurawatches.co.uk
An American site I've seen which has prices is: http://www.abouttime.com

Hope this helps.

I can vouch for About Time. That's who I bought my watch from, and they're great to deal with.

It just came about an hour ago actually, and it's really really nice. I'll have some pictures up tonight probably.

Daz wrote:You may find this test interesting, it compares the brightness of the lume on a Seiko Monster to the tritium tubes of a Ball Engineer Diver over time. The tubes clearly have an advantage.
http://forums.watchuseek.com/showthread.php?t=81978

Yeah, very interesting. As you say Daz, the Ball has clearly the better lume. I think the watch looks great too.

If your up all night in the dark Ball seems the way to go!

They really do seem to have something for everyone... And as for the quality, when I was comparing them to similar priced brands (entry level Omega mainly), the Ball felt more solid to me.

As for my new Ball EMII Diver, well, had a small problem. I said I got it, and I did, but there was a ding in the watch. Obviously I was upset, but I called the AD, he said he'd call me back, and five minutes later Ball USA called. They gave me their fedex account info, and I shipped the watch off. The watch got to them Monday, I called like they asked me to, and they said they were replacing it. It was shipped back to me today, and I'll have a hopefully ding-free watch on Thursday.

So, it was a frustrating experience, but at the same time the service I received from everyone was great. Unless something is wrong with the new watch (every company misses something at some point), I still definitely recommend Ball watches.

I finally got my hands on these yesterday at Selfridges . I think they're one of only two UK outlets stocking them (the other being Jura) if I'm not mistaken. I had a good look at the Hydrocarbon Titanium and Engineer Master 2 diver. Both very solid. They were on a par with my IWC Spitfire, that's my honest opinion. They really are producing something special for a very good price. I had a look at some others too including the Engineer Master GMT, all very good. The hard part will be picking one nice problem to have though...

A couple pictures of my new EMII Diver (which I managed to rub up against something and scuff today, but that seems to be the pattern with me, I make the watch "unique" very quickly )

Very nice I might have to have a trip to check them out, are they in the selfridges in Leeds ?