Unusual Breiting With Spanish Day Display

As our editors mentioned recently, we really love foreign market watches. Our favorite examples feature a day window in a foreign language. We found one recently in the form of a Rolex President, but what if you can’t afford to spend over $10,000 on a watch right now?

Enter this classic replica breitling Bentley GT. This unusual Breitling features a day window and the days happen to be written in Spanish. The watch is rather small (33mm) and is gold filled on a leather strap. It features a manual movement with sweep seconds, and a date window in addition to the day of the week. We don’t know too much about this replica breitling Navitimer 01 watch and we have never seen this model before, but we do like the looks and we love the Spanish day.

As we also said in our Trends to Watch in Watches list, we think unusual Breitlings are poised for a big surge this year, and this one is pretty unusual. This vintage http://www.speedroc.com/replica-breitling-chronomat-41.html Breitling in Spanish is retailing for $1950, which without knowing too much about this piece, we think seems to be in the ball park, if not perhaps a tad on the high side. Why do we think it’s a little high? Well, one of the most sought after, most timeless, and all around coolest Breitlings ever made (the Navitimer) sold at auction recently for roughly the same price in Antiquorum’s most recent auction. Which would you rather have for the money?

Even if this Breitling is slightly (and we do stress “slightly”) overpriced, it is still a great looking vintage watch from a historic manufacturer that you won’t find every day.

It is common knowledge, or at least it should be if you read Hodinkee, that the Omega Speedmaster was the first watch worn on the moon. It may not be known though, that the first watch worn into Space was actually a Breitling, a Navitimer to be exact Sturmanskie. For the SECOND trip into space, an orbit of about 5 hours by Commander Scott Carpenter in May of 1962, a 24-hour version of the Breitling Navitmer was used.

This version was later renamed the Navitimer Cosmonaute and was marketed successfully as the “Space Watch”. The Navitimer and the Cosmonaute are still made today, and they have both come in varying sizes with different faces, cases, and bezels, but what one we have found for you today is particularly rare.