Breitling’s Bentley Motors 30-Second Chronograph has been remodeled into a new Model, the Breitling for Bentley Barnato and Barnato Racing Chronographs. Both feature Breitling’s Caliber 25B movement with the unique 30-Second Chronograph. New for both the Racing and Regular Barnato Chronographs is the display back featuring a new Wheel Rim style Winding Rotor, mounted on the same 25B movement. This is a sweet looking display back!

Very cool to see Breitling really push forward with more display backs and fancy looking movements. Their stuff has been locked behind solid casebacks for far too long! They’ve also added “Swiss Made” to the dials of all their watches now which adds to the marketability of the brand. No longer are we seeing questions like “Is Breitling Swiss Made? It doesn’t say it on the dial.”, but we do get questions like “Are older Breitlings Swiss Made? They didn’t say that on the dial.”

From Breitling:

BENTLEY BARNATO
Resolutely Bentley in terms of its design, the Bentley Barnato associates a generously sized case with fixed bezel featuring a knurled raised motif and red-rimmed sports counters – just like on the dashboards of the finest sports cars from the British carmaker. Totally Breitling from a technical standpoint, it combines a selfwinding chronograph movement chronometer-certified by the COSC with an ultra-efficient and ultra-legible “30-second chronograph” system. Its originality extends to the reverse side fitted with a transparent back serving like an open car bonnet to reveal a wheel-rim shaped oscillating weight. Available with a black or silver dial enhanced by applied hour-markers and tone-on-tone counters with a refined spiral motif, the Bentley Barnato comes in steel as well as in a 500-piece red gold limited edition. It can be teamed with a leather, crocodile leather or rubber strap, or with the particularly sturdy and comfortable Speed bracelet.

BENTLEY BARNATO RACING
The Bentley Barnato Racing special series features a spectacular design that makes it the most original of all Breitling for Bentley chronographs. The pointer-type counters are replaced by a highly original disc-type counters system displaying the hours and minutes of the measured time by means of two red triangles. The openworked shape of the silver-toned discs is reminiscent of the steering wheels on the famous Bentley models that won the Le Mans 24 Hours race five times between 1924 and 1930 – thanks to Barnato and the other Bentley Boys. The “30-second chronograph” serves to measure the best laps to the nearest 1/8th of a second. The oscillating weight inspired by the wheel rims on the new Continental GT provides a maximum of energy to the COSC chronometer-certified movement. Carved in steel for the standard version, the Bentley Barnato Racing takes on an even more exclusive aura in a 500-piece red gold limited edition.

AN EXCLUSIVE “30-SECOND CHRONOGRAPH” SYSTEM
Inspired by a patent filed by the founder’s son Gaston Breitling in 1926, the ingenious principle of the “30-second chronograph” is distinguished by its central hand sweeping around the dial in half a minute instead of the customary 60 seconds. This original layout provides readings of the measured times accurate to within 1/8th of a second.