Legendary Watches The Breitling Chronomat Bentley

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.