One of Ebel's more popular models, the '1911', was named in honor of the year that Eugene and Alice Blum founded this Swiss watch company. Awards and achievements for aesthetically pleasing and technically superior watches have testified of Ebel's quality since it's early days. Extreme readability is a key feature of the 1911 BTR, enhanced by dedicated 'color-coded' hands that enable the man who wears one to distinguish, at a glance between normal time-related functions and chronograph measurements.