You also have a choice of colour for the tritium gas micro-tubes that glow in the dark, between the rainbow assortment or the standard yellow and green. The Engineer III Endurance 1917 GMT is a great all-around option with it’s fourth GMT hand as well as a 24-hour chapter ring, colour-matched to the dial in either ice blue, grey or blue. You can choose between a green or ice blue dial displaying the temperatures in Celsius or Fahrenheit, and it’s also available with a black TIC case coating. ![]() The Ball Engineer III Endurance 1917 TMT is equipped with a fascinating temperature gauge, using a patented mechanical thermometer that operates between -35☌ to 45☌ (-31☏ and 113☏). The 40mm version is available in silver, blue, black, and ice blue, while the 45mm reference can be had in black, ice blue, or green. The Engineer II Master Endurance 1917 are the simplest of the bunch, with their three-hand displays and large date magnifier. There’s an air of tradition about them, especially with those that include the Ball signature ‘RR’ counterweight on the seconds hand, but the blazing sunburst finishes on those dials give a thoroughly contemporary feel. ![]() The dialĭespite the year 1917 appearing in the name of the series, the look of the watches are all up to Ball’s modern standard of aesthetics. The flagship model is the Engineer III Endurance 1917 GMT at 41mm wide, 47.6mm long and 13.15mm thick, and finally the Engineer III Endurance 1917 TMT with its unique complication is 42mm wide, 50mm long, and 13mm thick. The smallest and largest diameters are held by the time-only Ball Engineer Master II Endurance 1917, with a 40mm case that’s 46.6mm long and 13.6mm thick, and the 45mm diameter version that’s 52.9mm long and 14.05mm thick. The style remains the same across the watches, with a gently flowing lug terminating in clipped ends, but each of the four in the Endurance 1917 series has a different set of measurements. It adds to the old-world charm of the watch, granting a sense of luxury alongside the durability. The entire case is polished to a sheen, which is quite a rare statement for a tool watch. This not only gives it a slightly different lustre in the polished surfaces, but is also even more resistant to the corrosion of seawater, extreme temperatures, and acids. Ball use 904L stainless steel which has more chromium, molybdenum, nickel and copper than the typical 316L steel used by most watches. ![]() Although the Endurance was ironically crushed and wrecked by the ice drift it became stuck in, the cases of the Ball Endurance 1917 watches are indeed as hardy as their name suggests.
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