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No love for Breitling on OF?

Paulomega
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I like Breitlings very much, but most of them are too big for me to wear. Here is one of mine that I bought about 15 or so years ago.

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Pjotr1
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well, almost completely a Breitling. That is, everything but the dial...
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May 1962, astronaut Scott Carpenter became only the second American to orbit the Earth solo aboard the "Aurora 7" Mercury capsule.... He received a 24 Hr dial Breitling "Cosmonaut" Navitimer chronograph, which he was very proud of...
However this Breitling was water damaged during the May 24th, 1962 recovery by USS Intrepid in the Atlantic Ocean near Puerto Rico 馃檨
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heccsat
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To be honest, I kind of forgot that they even exist. I'd wear a vintage one any day, but would never consider buying a modern Breitling.
 
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heccsat heccsat
To be honest, I kind of forgot that they even exist. I'd wear a vintage one any day, but would never consider buying a modern Breitling.

Breitling is one of those brands whom produce some amazingly bad looking watches - blinged out to the max - and yet still do produce some understated ones as well in 38mm. Pretty much anything in their "women's" collection is a perfectly appropriately sized mens watch. Still wouldn't buy one new.
 
alam
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I like them but there鈥檚 just a modern one in my box for now, still working on seconds... 馃榾
 
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TexOmega
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Circa 2003 SuperOcean with killer blue dial and very comfortable original bracelet.

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I have always wanted a '74 Navi Chrono-matic as my birth year watch but there are just way too many watches I want more.
 
sxl2004
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Oh I torltally forgot I have a modern Breitling too.
Super Ocean Heritage

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Ninja2789
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I feel like the issue with vintage Breitling is that you just don't see very many good examples show up on the secondary market very often (exceptions being the 806).

I personally have been on the hunt for a later Chronomat 808 with lume plots on the inside track. I've only seen 1 show up at a dealer in the past 18 months I've been looking. Then you consider how often a clean TopTime 810 shows up. Maybe 1-2 every quarter? In fact, I think most of desirable vintage Breitlings (765AVI, SuperOcean 2005, etc) have really only come up for sale through dealers. I can't think of very many private sales so far this year.
 
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