*Rare* BALL Engineer Hydrocarbon NEDU Blue Day-Date Dial Watch DC3026A Orig Box

Description: Ball Engineer Hydrocarbon NEDU Dive Watch 600m Titanium Chronograph 42mm Diameter Not Including Crown, 18mm Thick. Titanium Bracelet This watch has the much sought-after blue dial and is in excellent condition. There are no scratches on the sapphire crystal. Comes with all links for the band, case, CD manual, and the professional dive buoy. The band is a combination of titanium and stainless steel to make the watch lighter. The band has very small light scratches. Case is titanium for lighter weight. Watch has multicolor tritium tubes to be seen at night, with or without light which need no charging of tritium hands and markers. The tritium colors are yellow for hands, green for hour markers and orange at twelve o'clock. Note the second picture shows the tritium tubes that are still working when "teased" with a light source. The hour and minute hands and some of the others also do not light.This is my watch and was purchased in either 2012 or 2013. Bezel is ratcheting with super luminal markings. Watch is automatic with self-winding feature as well as crown protection. Special design ball clasp is super easy to use. In my opinion, this is one of Ball's best watches. Great quality and value as usual with Ball. You can find more details on Ball's website under collections. In 2012 Ball released an interesting new diver called the Engineer Hydrocarbon NEDU. The Navy Experimental Diving Unit (NEDU) is the branch of the American Navy that deals with the standards for operational diving and decompression rules for their divers. NEDU is actually the group responsible for establishing the decompression tables you may know from scuba training. These decompression tables allow a diver to know how quickly to ascend, based on the duration and depth of their dive. Use these numbers correctly and you can prevent suffering a case of the bends. Back to the watch at hand. The NEDU is a 42mm titanium diver that features Ball’s signature H3 micro gas tubes for constant low-light illumination and is powered by a COSC certified ETA 7750 automatic chronograph movement. The 7750 offers hours, minutes, sub seconds, day and date along with a central second hand for the chronograph measure and a maximum resolution of 12 hours. A COSC 7750 is a rock-solid choice for a sports chronograph as the movement has proven to be reliable, capable of excellent accuracy, and generally inexpensive to service (compared against in-house movements). The 21 micro gas tubes, a 3.7mm anti-reflective sapphire crystal, and 600m worth of water resistance do not make the NEDU a slim watch. With a thickness of 17.3mm, even the titanium construction of the case cannot save this watch from a large and weighty footprint. Unlikely to fit under any cuff, the included titanium and steel bracelet does sport an extension so the NEDU will fit over your wetsuit. Further features include 7500Gs worth of shock resistance, and magnetic resistance to 4,800 A/m. Perhaps most notable is that Ball has managed to integrate an automatic helium escape valve into the crown of the NEDU diver. The Hydrocarbon range sports an over-sized crown and propriety locking system. The spring-based system, believed to be a watchmaking first, is fitted into the cap of the crown and allows expanding helium molecules (accumulated during saturation diving) to leave the case of the watch without damaging any components.When first available, the Ball Hydrocarbon Engineer NEDU had a list price of $4,950.00. I like Ball for their attractive designs, good build quality and because of our child-like fascination with anything that glows in the dark. We like that Ball is developing new ideas and bringing them to market. The NEDU is yet another example from Ball of an unconventional design with both leveraging Ball’s strengths and innovative spirit. This is a complete set including the full Pelican dive case. Brand: Ball Model: Engineer Hydrocarbon NEDU Movement: Automatic / Swiss COSC Case: Titanium Crown: Screw Down Crown With Guard Size: 42mm Lugs: 22mm Dial: Blue Dial Bezel: Ceramic Rotating Diver Boxes/Papers: Complete Ball Pelican Diving Set! Water Resistance: 600m Strap/Bracelet: Original Ball Titanium Bracelet With All Links! Notes: I have bought and sold well over 2500 items on eBay and have received positive feedback comments on all previous sales and purchases - please take a look. Finally, while I've taken great care in describing this item and other items I sell as to their condition, I am not a company and so this item is sold "As Is" and therefore I am not in a position to accept their return in the case of a problem. Thank you very much for viewing my auction and if you are the winning bidder congratulations on your purchase.

Price: 1800 USD

Location: Marlboro, New Jersey

End Time: 2025-02-13T16:44:21.000Z

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