The Breitling Watch Blog

Herbert Nitsch is an Austrian free-diver who has held world records in all of the eight apnea free-diving disciplines recognised by AIDA International. He also kind of looks like Patrik Antonius, the poker player, who also likes to wear Breitling.

He is the current freediving world record champion, and holds the record for deepest dive. He set the current world record in No Limits discipline at a depth of 214m. To date, he has achieved 31 official World Records.

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

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??

One of the many debated topics on the Breitlingsource Forums is whether or not it is appropriate to wear your Breitling watches on a rubber strap, particularly the Diver Pro rubber, especially when the watch is not one of the Dive or Professional models. In particular, I’m talking about models like ones from the Windrider and Breitling for Bentley series of watches.

I had been hankering for another Breitling Headwind since I sold mine, and was really hoping to get one with a white dial. So, when I saw a Headwind on Diver Pro Rubber, I had to snag it – even it was on rubber! My first Breitling purchase in quite a while, since I got married almost a year ago and had the matching Breitling SuperOcean Heritage watches engraved.

The beautiful white dial is probably one of the nicest I’ve seen in this price range. The technique used to create the Headwind dials, particularly the blue and white ones, is amazing. Patek Philippe of course makes superiorly finished dials 😉

I have always loved the precisely machined crowns on the older Windrider models like the Headwind. They are cut more sharply and the high quality is easily seen in the crown and much harder to duplicate. As you can see from these close-up shots, the Headwind shows quite well on the diver pro rubber.

Now this shot really shows the rubber and headwind combination. I used to be anti-rubber on my Breitling watches, but I’ve really warmed up to this one, and have seletected it as my Vacation watch for my upcoming trip to Asia. This means I will have to use this same watch every day for over two weeks! This is not an easy task for me!

As you can see, it has the newer Diver Pro with the raised logo on the buckle. I often prefer not to use the keeper that is built-into the buckle, as it makes the watch harder to remove and put on, and usually the extra security isn’t necessary. I do use it when I am swimming with it.

Overall, a very good presentation on Rubber, at least in my opinion. I don’t think I would wear my Breitling for Bentley on Rubber, but this Headwind does seem to work for me!

Another new model introduced at Basel World 2010 from Breitling is the Breitling for Bentley Limited Edition Supersports model. This is basically a Breitling for Bentley Motors/6.75 Case with a new dial and the Caliber 26B movement, same as in the Breitling for Bentley Mark VI. The specifications also mention a Titanium caseback, which I have yet to see a photo of.

Beautiful watch, but nothing especially new here… a nice bit of extra effort though for a limted edition model using the Motors Case.