The Breitling Watch Blog

Graham Watches London has send out a neat E-Card to mailing list subscribers, a nice gesture and a small bit of work on there part but nonetheless something worth taking a look at to give you some of that holiday cheer!

See the card here:
http://www.graham-london.com/ecard/

This is to supplement the Video Review that I posted earlier.

While I recently sold this watch as it wasn’t getting any wrist time, I still loved the way it looked and for a 38mm watch, it received a surprisely large amount of compliments. The intricate dial is very captivating, and my photographs likely don’t do it justice. The Telemetre markings on the dial and subtle circularing patterning on the subdials give the watch that rare charm that some watches just seem to have.

As you can see, the watch has a curved sapphire crystal with AR coating. The hour and minute hands are filled with SuperLuminova, and glow just enough to read at night. The fixed bezel is on the thinner side, which gives the watch a decent presence due to the dial sizing and comes mounted on a Genuine Crocodile strap and signed Tang buckle.

The movement is an ETA 2894-2, with a chronograph and date at 4:30, which is nice and discreet on the dial.

The Screwdown crown is signed with the 5 ball bearing Eterna logo, and the pushers are a classic piston style. The case is a three-piece fully polished one, with 18mm lugs.

Caseback is brushed, with standard Eterna engravings and markings indicating the 30m water resistance, sapphire crystal and Swiss pedigree.

Here’s the Eterna Cambridge strapped on my 6.75″ wrist. Not too shabby. It actually wears pretty good for 38mm on the OEM strap, and looks even better on a Bund Pilot strap, which is what I wore the watch on the majority of the time I owned it.

Patek launched a new Watchmaking and Restoration facility in Le Brassus on December 9th, 2010 to consolidate its watchmaking activities. This brings Patek Philippe closer to the watchmaking centre of Vallée de Joux.

Patek continues to reinforce its committment to fine Swiss watchmaking and invest more money into mainting and solidifying their presence as one of Swiss Horology’s most prestigious brands.

More Info:
http://www.patek.com/

This is not a free contest unfortunately. When the company contacted me about a contest, I thought it was free and I told them I would be interested in posting, but I realized it was not free, but figured it might be of interest to some people anyway.

‘WIN A JAMES BOND WATCH’ COMPETITION*

YOU COULD WIN THIS OMEGA SEAMASTER PLANET OCEAN AS WORN BY OO7!

You could be lucky enough to be wearing this timepiece that’s identical to the watch worn by Daniel Craig in Quantun Of Solace!

For your chance to win this great prize subscribe now to the James Bond’s DB5 Magazine. You will be charged for the first four issues, and can cancel anytime.

Qualifying question

To enter the win an Omega Seamaster competition please answer the following question: What year was Goldfinger released? 1962, 1964, 1965

PRIZE RULES

1. Competition is only open to residents of the United Kingdom, excluding Northern Ireland.
2. Entries will be entered into a prize draw, from which the winner will be drawn at random on 31 March 2011.
2. The winner will be notified by post and will be informed at this point of the details.
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5. Entries lost, damaged or delayed in transit – for any reason – cannot be entered into the draw.
6. The promoter reserves the right to alter details of the prize draw if circumstances dictate it necessary to do so.
*The watch is the same type of watch, not the exact one worn by Daniel Craig.

Breitling launches a new unique model that harkens to the days of yore, well, more like the 50’s and 60’s. The new Breitling Transocean Chronograph B01 draws from the styles of the old Transocean from 1958 and will be launched as a Limited Edition of 2000 pieces in steel and 200 pieces in rose gold both with exhibition casebacks. There will be a regular series as well launched afterwards that will have a standard solid caseback.

It seems that Breitling will use the Exhibition casebacks as a feature of Limited Edition models for the time being as this appears to be the trend they are embarking on. I have to say that this is a truly beautiful watch that really is catching my eye… I am very inclined to try and purchase one of these. Not sure what the pricing is, but I think I would really like to try and get one.. Great work on this one, Breitling!