The Breitling Watch Blog

Ferrari has a joint watch in the works with Luxury watchmaker Cabestan, and it is a memorable piece indeed. Made available exclusively to Ferrari clients, this is a watch that you will only see on a Ferrari owner’s wrist. The watch uses the Cabestan Winch Tourbillon Vertical movement, and features unique design elements taken from Ferrari’s formula one team’s ideas. The movement is said to use a 6-speed automatic transmission in order to maintain constant force to the tourbillon, achieving accuracy to within 1 second per day.

Or alleged murderer. Interesting article about how a Breitling watch helps lead police to a man’s alleged murderer.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/manchester/8661079.stm

The new Glashutte Senator Chronometer is the first Glashutte Original watch to be certified by Germany’s DIN 8319 standard, which is the Germany’s equivalent standard to COSC certification. COSC only certifies Swiss made watches, so this was a necessary step to certify the rate results of German movements.

The watches are tested by an independent company called DKD (German Calibrating Service), and are tested using almost identical conditions as COSC tests.

Aside from the certification, the watch is classic Glashutte Original, with an exceptionally beautiful handwind movement, the caliber 58-01. The movement features the classic Glashutte ¾ plate, with gold setting and hand-engraved balance cock. The watch also features a chronometer grade screw balance and swans neck fine adjustment. Some of the complications included on this watch are the power reserve indicator, panorama date, small seconds and zero-reset crown for the seconds which is a very cool feature and favourite of Glashutte Original.

The Senator Chronometer also has a wonderfully understated and elegant dial, and perfectly machined Solid 18k Gold Double butterfly deployant. MSRP on this watch is $26,900 in Rose Gold and $28,000 in White Gold – So I will likely not be getting one of these anytime soon. Too bad, because I love it!

Sure seems like it. Breitlingsource used to be top 10 on Google search results for the term “Breitling”, which in my opinion makes sense since its the largest english-speaking resource and forum dedicated to Breitling. In the last month or so, I noticed traffic had dropped dramatically to my site and couldn’t figure out why. I finally just searched google, and after two years of being on the front page of search results, I am now displaced because of EIGHT (8) Replica sites that are now the front page of Google for “Breitling”. That means aside from Breitling’s official site (Position 1), and Wikipedia (Position 6), all the other sites are Replica Breitling sales sites!!!

Now I don’t claim to be a specialist at search engine optomization, and I certainly don’t really pay much attention to it, but that is kind of a funky result. Maybe its because most people searching for Breitling are actually looking for Fakes and Replicas, so that’s what Google is giving them?

Here’s a shot of the Google.com results I get:

Now, I think this is a slap in the face of Breitling in general and all Luxury Goods manufacturers to have the Fake and Replica Breitling sites show up higher than the resources that promote the sale and discussion of the real thing… Am I the only one that feels this way??

Was just reminded of a 2009 Baselworld announcement from Ulysse Nardin… Those of you that have never seen the Ulysse Nardin Chairman Luxury Hybrid Smart Phone should take a peek at this thing. Its still not out yet and still on preorder, and its been over a year.

• Google Android mobile phone platform
• 3.2″ capacitive touch screen with full on screen QWERTY keyboard and physical numeric keys
• Fingerprint reader for owner identification and phone lock
• 8 megapixel camera
• High definition video replay capability
• YouTube, Google Maps, Gmail, Google talk and Facebook preloaded
• Qualcomm 3G GSM/WCDMA – 2G Bands 850/900/1800/1900MHz 3G Bands 900/2100MHz
• Smartphone platform powered by the Freescale i.MX processor
• 32 GB internal memory
• Extensive gaming ability
• Up to 8 hours talk time and 30 days standby time
• Ulysse Nardin Rotor (kinetic power system) and Crown (for winding the phone) i.e. generating additional electrical power to the battery