Breitling Bentley Diavolo Watch Review

Back when I was a brand new watch lover I came across something weird called the Bentley. I was still too much of a novice to know who or what Breitling http://www.speedroc.com/replica-breitling-bentley-gt-racing.html was, but the strange timepiece stuck in my mind – probably because there was nothing else like it (and still isn’t for that matter). Over the years the Bentley kept coming back and eventually all the bits and pieces of what it was in full came together for me. I understood this Bentleyish creation and all the innovations contained within it. My time spent trying to appreciate the replica breitling Bentley Barnato paid off, and it coincided with my overall horological education. Right now the Bentley is about 10 years old – and still selling strong.

I recently had an ironic conversation with the CEO and COO of replica breitling Chronomat 41. They explained to me the importance of building useful complications that people would use on a regular basis. That they weren’t into making wildly designed watches that had a very niche appeal. To that I responded, “well what about the Bentley?” Correcting themselves, “Beside the Bentley we mean. That is why we called it the Bentley, because it is wild and different.” It most certainly is. The Bentley has recently been followed up with the Bentley Diavolo. Not exactly a replacement, the Bentley Diavolo improved upon the original design in a few ways, and also added a tourbillon complication. The “Diavolo” part of the name came from two horn looking windows in the back of the watch next to another window of the mainspring that act like a power reserve indicator. I first talked about the Breitling Bentley Diavolo watch when debuting it to the world here.

The concept of the Bentley requires a bit of education to understand, but in essence it is a simple and straight forward machine. If the design wasn’t so unorthodox it would be a great watch to explain how a mechanical movement works. The original Bentley movement was the minute hand of the watch (yes), and it revolved around the dial on a track each 60 minutes. This large hand contains the basic gear assembly required to make a watch operate. At the opposite end of the hand was the escapement. Looking closely you can see each of the gears moving together in a beautiful expression of how a mechanical watch movement operates. Under the large minute hand/gear assembly is an hour hand. The original Bentley offered the hours and minutes only. For comparison purposes I have added some images in this article of the Breitling Bentley Blue Phantom so you can see how it compares to the Bentley Diavolo.