{"product_id":"ball-trainmaster-ti-as07065","title":"Ball Trainmaster TI","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eIf not for Ball watches, America as we know it might look very, very different.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eFollowing the 1891 Kipton, Ohio railroad disaster, Webster C. Ball was tasked with improving timekeeping across the entire railroad system, a charge he took to with great vigor. Dubbed “Chief Time Inspector,” Ball made certain that railway men were issued with his watches — and that even if they weren’t, that the watches they were using conformed to rigorous timekeeping standards in order to prevent accidents and collisions.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eToday, Ball Watch Company is Swiss-owned, and its product line has since expanded to dive watches, chronographs, dress watches, and more.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe particular Ball we have here is a Trainmaster, named in honor of the firm’s American railway heritage. Housed in a 38mm titanium case with a sapphire crystal, a polished, stepped bezel, and a screw-down crown, it features a luminous satin black dial with applied micro-gas tritium tubes as indices, a matching handset, and a date at 3:00. Powered by the automatic Ball RR1101 movement visible via an exhibition caseback, it comes paired to a handsome brown alligator leather strap with a signed, stainless steel pin buckle.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eSimple, robust, and handsome, the Trainmaster is the type of hard-wearing everyday watch we can get behind. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eTrust us!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ball","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39822018216023,"sku":"40990692","price":890.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0809\/1255\/products\/AS07065_40990692_BALL_TRAINMASTERTI_NM1038D-L5J-BK_KIT-6.jpg?v=1657143069","url":"https:\/\/www.analogshift.com\/products\/ball-trainmaster-ti-as07065","provider":"Analog:Shift","version":"1.0","type":"link"}