![]() Of course, I never bother to read it anyway. Nobody puts as much “stuff” in the box as Breitling. I have considered having the bracelet and lug tops brushed to tone them down a bit, but so far have opted to leave the piece in its original state. But the highly polished Breitling bracelets are a bit flashy for my taste. ![]() It is certainly well made, and the relatively thin profile is very comfortable. If I would change anything on this model it would be the bracelet. The blasted matte finish and what I assume to be the Kitty Hawk are far more appealing to me than the reverse of the standard Navitimer. I have seen many Montbrillants at 38mm – too small! I have also seen the newer Montbrillant Legendes at 46mm – too big! But 42mm? Ahhhh – just right! One of the things I like best is the 42mm size. A3533012 Special Edition from 1903 to honor 100 years of flight. So here she is - 7 years old but looking bright and clean and new and feeling very at home on my wrist. We've been keeping each other constant company ever since. It didn't take long for a very friendly deal to be agreed upon, and within days the package arrived. Several months later an email arrived from my friend saying the watch was available. Needless to say, his post provided the incentive for me to re-establish contact and of course mention I loved the watch, and if he ever wanted to turn it into something else. It was the brilliant Montbrillant! In the metal! An old watch friend with whom I had lost touch reappeared on a watch site posting a picture of the watch he was wearing that day. Perhaps one never does truly forget a first infatuation. Life went on, but the vision of that Montbrillant remained. We lived together happily for a while, until the Navitimer was sacrificed to feed some no longer remembered step in the addiction of WISdom. In fairly short order I decided I didn't need both. If one was good, two would be better, right? I could try them both, keep the one I liked better, and put the other back on Sales Corner. I also found and became interested in a roughly similar but less expensive Sinn 903H2. As I poked around I was eventually tipped by a friendly TZer to a nice pre-owned Navitimer. ![]() Of course, by then it was no longer current and seemed to have disappeared. I left without a purchase, but not without carrying a mental picture of that watch.Īs the itch festered, I eventually looked for a Breitling and tried unsucessfully to find the same model, whose name and reference number I could not remember. At least it did until the salesman pointed out that was for the watch head only a bracelet or strap and clasp were extra and all were sold ala carte. The price on the tag seemed surprisingly reasonable. I wasn't really listening as I was captivated by the watch in my hands. The salesperson patiently explained it was some sort of special Limited Edition, blah blah, yadda yadda. One day I was wandering through an AD and glanced in the Breitling case. They weren't really on my radar, and the somewhat ubiquitous rider tabs never much appealed to me. Over the years I bought, sold, and traded my way through dozens of watches without ever paying much attention to Breitling.
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