{"id":114553,"date":"2024-02-05T09:57:37","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T09:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/?p=114553"},"modified":"2024-02-05T10:09:28","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T10:09:28","slug":"railroad-timekeeper-ball-pays-homage-to-the-great-disruptor-henry-ford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/railroad-timekeeper-ball-pays-homage-to-the-great-disruptor-henry-ford\/","title":{"rendered":"Railroad timekeeper Ball pays homage to the great disruptor Henry Ford"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Ball Watch Company is forever associated with timekeeping during the great railway expansion in the United States, but its latest Engineer M Endurance, which will go on sale in March, is celebrating the train industry&#8217;s greatest challenger, Henry Ford.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As Mr Ford made his iconic Model T automobile, he often relied on a Ball pocket watch for precise timekeeping and would often disassemble the timepiece to enjoy its inner components working together in complete harmony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That pocket watch is now a part of history and is on display at the Ford Museum\u2019s private collection in Ford\u2019s hometown of Dearborn, Michigan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Inspired by that timekpper and Henry Ford&#8217;s industrial and automotive genius, Ball is launching a new Engineer M Endurance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-2 wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"88898\" src=\"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/2022\/12\/Excalibur-Spider-Ultimate-Carbon-low-res-300x450@2x.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-88898\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"88897\" src=\"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/2022\/12\/Emailer_3-1-105x105@2x.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-88897\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"88899\" src=\"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/2022\/12\/11062018A405-350x350@2x.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-88899\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"88900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/2022\/12\/11062018A134-350x200@2x.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-88900\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The watch, which will go on sale in March, comes in a 40mm stainless steel case housing Ball&#8217;s Chronometer Manufacture Caliber RRM7309-CS with accuracy of -2\/+4 seconds per day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It will launch with a choice of four dial colours: dark blue, pale blue, green or black, with applied markers and hands lit up by Ball&#8217;s signature micro gas tubes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Worn on an integrated steel bracelet, the Engineer M Endurance can be ordered now for \u00a33,171.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ball Watch Company is forever associated with timekeeping during the great railway expansion in the United States, but its latest Engineer M Endurance, which will go on sale in March, is celebrating the train industry&#8217;s greatest challenger, Henry Ford. As Mr Ford made his iconic Model T automobile, he often relied on a Ball pocket [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":114554,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"Introducing the Engineer M Endurance.","newspack_hide_updated_date":false},"categories":[7,2,1],"tags":[12775],"newspack_lstngs_evt":[],"newspack_lstngs_gen":[],"newspack_lstngs_mkt":[],"newspack_lstngs_plc":[],"acf":[],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"WATCHPRO USA","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/usa.watchpro.com","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114553"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114560,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114553\/revisions\/114560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114553"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_evt","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_evt?post=114553"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_gen","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_gen?post=114553"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_mkt","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_mkt?post=114553"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_plc","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_plc?post=114553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}