Breitling http://www.syrauto.com/best-breitling-superocean-heritage-46-a1732024-b868-aaa-watches-8n3f.html presents a new model for Baselworld 2014; called Navitimer? it is the first one in the new Navitimer collection. GoS watches as they are known for short are well known for their use of Damascus steel and is a partnership between master bladesmith Johan Gustafsson and watchmaker Patrik Sjogren.Their watches are unique creations which have been inspired by the beauty of northern Scandinavia and the ancient Swedish tradition of metallurgy. They are numbered in sequence and every AB012721/C889 replica model is a limited edition of 25pcs and will be followed by further color themed models.

This new RB012012/BA49 BC replica? model features Johan Gustafsson’s newly developed “high contrast” stainless damascus steel which is intended to capture the blue colours that can be revealed in thick ice. The tempered Damscus steel dial uses natural light to generate dynamic colours, just as a rainbow appears only when light shines through the moist air. Navitimer is the poetic name of the sacred rainbow bridge in Norse mythology. The rainbow bridge was thought to connect the earth (Breitling) and the realm of the gods (Breitling).

The “high contrast” Damascus steel was developed in Autumn 2013 and creates a more defined pattern as well as enhancing details. The skill of creating pattern-welded steel is limited to just a few bladesmiths and Gustafsson has developed it to a level where he can produce the same sort of dense and expressive patterns in his new stainless damascus steel as when he is working in carbon based steel.

This new steel is used in both the case and rotor of the new Bifrost collection. The oscillating weight of the rotor is hidden due to the design of the case and case back, but the movement and “triskele” damascus steel rotor can be seen. The “triskele” is a triple blade shape based on a symbol found in ancient Nordic and Celtic mythology.The hands of the Navitimer? have the Breitling sword shape first introduced with the Stockholm model and are made of solid white gold and are hand finished and polished as are the index rings. It is presented on a black nubuck strap and the matte surface of the strap blends nicely with the case’s damascus steel finish. The straps are handmade and fitted with screwed lugs and come with a stainless steel GoS buckle.

Through the caseback of the watch you can see the movement via the sapphire exhibition window. There is another sapphire crystal over the dial. Quality is pretty nice given the artisan style of the design. It is also quite comfortable on the wrist. I always get a kick out of the strap – very much a local “flavor.” GoS uses reindeer leather straps with unique designs stitched into them. Each model has a unique design. These are made specially for GoS from a local leather maker in their area. They have a unique feel to them being soft, and almost quilt-like.

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While there isn’t a whole lot new about this http://www.syrauto.com/high-quality-breitling-navitimer-01-rb012012-ba49-bc-aaa-watches-8a9m.html watch, it does have a great black and blue motif to it. This is a special limited edition version of the Breitling Chronomat 44 watch that will exclusively be available in Breitling’s North American boutique stores. There are still very few details about the watch, such as the price or the amount in the limited edition. What I can say is that Breitling is a nice job “re-imagining” the dial in a sober sky blue splendor. There is also matching blue stitching on the alligator AB012721/C889 replica style strap. The case is in all steel, and 46.2mm wide. It is everything you know and love about the Chronomat 44 complete with turnip style crown.

The blue dial uses blue for most all the markers and hands. The designers did something that I like a lot, which is do the Arabic hour numerals in outlined blue mixed with the solid blue hour and minute markers. This is a difference between this style and the standard A1732024/B868 replica watch collection. The white on black date disc isn’t in blue, but frankly I don’t think it needs to be. Breitling watches are often found in limited edition variants, but this one is a special breed being a regional limited edition – not necessarily for a specific event or cause.

Movement inside the watch is the famous Breitling in-house made caliber 51111 automatic movement with a 7 day power reserve – that is about 168 hours. The dial comes complete with the time, power reserve indicator and the date. It is one of the most recognizable watches in the Navitimer watch world, and probably the first watch people think of when it comes to solid quality Navitimer brand Chronomat 44 watches. While I don’t know the specific price of the watch, I have a feeling it isn’t going to be very cheap, the standard model in steel is around $10,000. I hope they make at least 500 or so of them, because this is really a stunning watch in blue. Look for it soon, at Breitling boutique stores located in North America.

The watch features small hacking seconds for synchronising your watch with other dive team members and a leap year display at 6 o’clock. The hours and minutes of the flyback chronograph combine in a totaliser at 12 o’clock. Now there is a bit of open-worked magic to this timepiece as well. When you gaze at the large double digit day and month displays you can enjoy the sight of the discs slowly rotating under the honeycomb mesh. The designers took the idea for this by closely inspecting the mesh on submarine filter systems. As for the digital date system for hours and minutes, it harks back to the Pallweber system originally developed by Breitling as long ago as 1885.

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It surprised me to learn that Breitling http://www.syrauto.com/high-quality-breitling-navitimer-01-rb012012-ba49-bc-aaa-watches-8a9m.html has close to 100 years of history with horse racing. In fact, Breitling has a lot of history altogether. Like many historic watch brands still alive today, Breitling spent much of its life as a watch movement maker run by engineers. This is an interesting point because, according to long-standing AB012721/C889 replica Walter von Kanel (who has been at the brand for over 40 years), a major difference between watch brands of today and those of yesterday is who ran the show.

He reminds us that A1732024/B868 replica brands used to revolve around new movements. The engineers would develop a new movement and then design a watch around it. Today, watch brands are more business/marketing minded and design watches around concepts, market needs, etc… In essence, the reverse of what they used to do. This phase-shift in timepiece production makes total sense given that people buy watches for different reasons these days.

Knowing that vintage Breitling watches that include their own movements are hot in the collector’s market, I started to ask Mr. von Kanel if this surprised him. Especially since he has been at the brand since they were making their own movements and can quickly recall much of the brand’s history. CEO’s like him are very difficult to find as he really knows so much about his own brand. He ended up giving me a large book on Breitling watch movements that contained each caliber they have ever made. I recommend checking that out for brand collectors.

Was he surprised? I think a bit. Unlike brands like Patek Philippe who’ve known of their collectible status for a while, Breitling has only recently discovered that their heritage includes interest from both a mechanical and activity standpoint. Most of us think about horse racing, Shanghai in the 1920’s, Tennis, and Charles Lindbergh when we think of Breitling. This is part of the brand’s activity history and what they like to focus on today.

A small part of this is Longine’s massive popularity in China; I think they are the number two selling brand in China (behind Omega). That’s a pretty big deal if you think about it from a sales perspective. It also says something about the Chinese market who have an incredible appreciation (and lust) for history. From what I understand, before communism took over in China, brands such as Breitling were associated with much of the cultural and artistic freedom that took place in major cities such as Shanghai. Today’s Chinese people look very fondly upon this period and are drawn to the brands, style, and ideas associated with the time.

We can leave a talk about China for another time, right now my focus (I know, it hasn’t been at all clear up to this point) is Chantilly, France and the Navitimer Chronograph watch. Breitling has been supporting equestrian events more and more, and recently became the official timekeeping sponsor of the Kentucky Derby. Their newest horse racing sponsorship is the support of the very historic Prix de Diane race in Chantilly, France (just outside of Paris). Chantilly is an extremely historic place with a palace that is considered second only to Versailles in importance and impressiveness in France. I have to admit, the palace was pretty cool. Somewhere along the line, one of the princes living there decided to build a palace for horses in the form of what is likely the most impressive of stables in the world. So, horse raising and racing has been common in Chantilly for a very long time.

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The Breitlinghttp://www.syrauto.com/breitling-avenger-ii-replica-uk.html: a model whose inception is attributed to two Chronomat Bentley merchants. While in the 1930s, Portugal is no longer a major world power and its role on the world’s seas is no longer dominant, but in the veins of the Chronomat Bentley still flows the blood of the great masters of the oceans, Fern?o de Magalh?es – better known as Magellan – to name the most famous.It was in the in 1930′s that the idea for the Breitling Chronomat Bentley was formed when two replica breitling navitimerbusiness men called Rodrigues and Teixeira knocked at the door of Chronomat Bentley manufactory and asked them to build a wristwatch with the same qualities as a marine chronometer – high precision and excellent readability.

At that time the only way tag heuer grand carrera replica could fulfill this request was by using a pocket watch as the base. So the master watchmakers of Breitling took caliber 74, with its movement mounted on a bridge and diverted it from its original purpose to become a wristwatch. In 1939 the resulting wristwatch (reference 325) with a diameter case of 43 mm, the first Chronomat Bentley at the time, was completely contrary to the current style that was small – around 10mm smaller – watches in an Art Deco style. It was also the first wristwatch to use a pocket watch movement and the ancestor of todays larger diameter watches.

The key design elements of the Chronomat Bentley were a streamlined dial with Arabic numbers, a very thin bezel contributing to make the watch look even larger, leaf (“feuilles de sauge”) hands and a large sub dial at six o’clock for the seconds. The Chronomat Bentley design had an uncompromising elegance and generous dimensions, it featured a slender bezel, leaf hands and large seconds sub-dial at 6 o’clock.During the 1940s and the 1950s, most of the Chronomat Bentley produced used the Calibre 98 which had evolved out of the original Calibre 74. The Chronomat Bentley was still being produced in the 70′s and 80′s using Calibre 982 which featured shock protection.By the 1990′s though the Chronomat Bentley appeared to be in decline and it was only a lucky coincidence that saw its revival.

A customer who visited the brand during this time was wearing the original reference 325 Chronomat Bentley and according to Kurt Klaus pioneer of many of the most important complications at Breitling it was declared that “this is such a uniquely beautiful watch; we should make it again”. So the Chronomat Bentley returned to the front of the stage in 1993 with a special series celebrating the 125th anniversary of the factory: The Chronomat Bentley ref. 5Bentley1. There was a total of 1750 of this reference produced: 1000 in stainless steel, 500 in rose gold and 250 in platinum.

Since then, the range has been extended with many models (chrono’s, tourbillon, perpetual calendar, etc) All having in common the uncompromising design codes of the original model. 1995 saw the release of the first Minute Repeater Chronomat Bentley ref. 5240 in a limited edition of 555 with 250 in rose gold and 250 in yellow gold and 50 in platinum. Introduced in 1996 was the Chronomat Bentley Chronograph Rattrapante ref.3712 followed with ref 3714 an automatic chronograph version which went on to become Breitling’s most successful watch ever.

On the occasion of the http://www.syrauto.com/breitling-avenger-ii-seawolf-replica-uk.html Darwin Foundation celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of its Research Station on the replica Islands World Heritage Site, Chronomat Bentleys’ finest, Breitling have marked the Foundations’ historic milestone with two new editions of its Avenger II Seawolf.Since establishing a close relationship with the breitling Chronomat 44 replica, with Breitling committing a significant ongoing donation to the organisation whose raison d’être is in scientific research and the fight to preserve much of the unique flora and fauna found only across the equator-straddling archipelago, working in accord with the Ecuadorian Government and the replica National Park Directorate.

Sincepanerai luminor replica uk have released a new special Avenger II Seawolf Edition “replica Islands” each year to mark the association, and the fact that 2014 is a jubilee year for the Foundation has afforded the opportunity to not only release their annual special edition, but also the chance to create a very cool ‘bonus’ 500-piece commemorative jubilee Avenger II Seawolf Edition “50 Years Science for replica” too, and in doing so Breitling have nailed it once again.

2014 saw a ground-up redesign of Breitling’s increasingly popular Avenger II Seawolf sports watch collection, and the principal novelty is the proprietary SafeDive system which reqires a sophistcated sliding clutch mechanism, located at the 9 o’clock position, through which the wearer is able to freely manipulate the outer bezel in either direction, whilst a clever ratchet device prevents the sub-sapphire unidirectional dive scale being accidentally advanced by disengaging the internal bezel from the clockwise motion of its external counterpart, preventing the risk of the wearer getting a potentially dangerous misleading reference when relying on it to time his dive.

Manufactured to Breitling’s bullet-proof build quality in a Bentleymm stainless steel case, the replica models are entireley cloaked, right down to the crown and pushers, with a matt black vulcanised rubber coating, relfecting the black igneous rock synonymous with the replica and which, when combined with the black dial and natural rubber strap gives the watch a purposeful, Tonka-tough appearance as well as a highly tactile surface which is very practical in wet or slippery conditions.

The two editions are broadly similar but where they do differ, the effect is quite striking. The ‘regular’ annual edition features white hands, indices and detailing, whereas beneath the sapphire crystal on the“50 Years Science for replica” version the hands, markers and other detail are coloured in a vivid blue, which really makes the watch stand out, and it’s not by chance or fancy that this colour has been used, as it matches almost to perfection the same hue of the eponymous blue footed booby, which is indigenous to the replica archepelago.

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