The Breitling Watch Blog

The new 602HP 2008 Bentley Continental GT Speed has a brand new Breitling Clock in it… which is very cool for new prospective Continental GT owners. As a Breitling Enthusiast, I think it’s really cool that there is now an applied logo on the Breitling Clock that’s in all the new Continental GT Speed models!

The Breitling script that adorned previous models is gone, now replaced with the applied Winged B Logo in Gold with silver-plated hands. There is no second hand.

Here is the old Breitling clock in the Bentley Continental GT:

And the new Breitling clock in the Bentley Continental GT Speed:

I think the new one is a significant improvement over the last one. I haven’t been able to find any information on the clock itself. I assume it uses some sort of Breitling Quartz movement… not like the instrument clocks in aircraft.

Its the perfect clock for the perfect car:

Maybe it’s my age, or the age of people around me now, but it seems like the whole world has been struck with automatic watch fever. All my friends around me have slowly become interested in the world of watches and I’m meeting more and more people with the same addiction and enthusiam to watches that I have!

My father has gotten into Breitlings as well having two peices that I picked up for him, with his friends getting into the Breitling brand. One of our friends that owns a Bentley Continental GT just bought a Breitling for Bentley Mark VI. Other friends of ours are now getting into the hobby and I’m finding that all my friends are asking me to help them pick up deals on certain watches on the secondary watch market. Its quite remarkable really.

Even small brands like Fossil are making automatics, with entry levels brands like Invicta creating increasingly expensive watches, and even making Swiss made watches. Invictas watches are very well made, but their involvement with Chinese made watches cheapens their brand in my opinion.

Antiquorum, the market leader in Watch Auctions broke 8 world records with a sale of $9,283,000US. Rolex sales broke record after record, and the future of watch collecting looks extremely promising. Even pocket watches, that I picked up on ebay a year ago would cost me double what I paid now! Now is the time to buy watches, as they will continue to cost more and more.

Being outside of the US, its very beneficial for us to buy our watches from the US right now, as there is such a significant discount from the lower US dollar.

Ask around.. you might notice an increase in watch enthuisiats around you. I certainly do!

Got another vintage Breitling Identification question from a visitor… any help would be appreciated! The question goes like this:

“I recently purchased this ladies Breitling watch that I am trying to find information on. Here are the markings I can see on it: It has a very unique gold case 7/8″ square (art deco looking) marked PLAQUE G 20. The dial face is 1/2″ Dia and is marked with a stylized B BREITLING GENEVE SWISS it is black with gold markings and hands.

The back looks like steel and is marked with the stylized B BREITLING 5519 on the outside and FOND ACIER INOXYDABLE 742452 MOD DEPOSE F.F.M (and some other no’s scratched in probably by a repair man that are hard to see) on the inside. There is a metal cover over the movement, the movement is marked with a stylized B and BREITLING. It has been almost impossible to find any info, any information would be greatly appreciated.”

A new watch classifieds site is now open, dedicated to Canadians. This makes it easier for Canadians to connect with other Canadians to buy sell and trade watches, without the hassles of customs and taxes and import duties.

This is a brand new site and will need your support to keep it going! Please visit and start listing your watches for sale/trade if you are Canadian!

This is a continued addendum to the Breitling Dials post from here.

A user on the forums emailed Breitling, and the email back from Breitling shows these details:

“LOGO WATCH ORDER REQUIREMENTS

• Only 3 models are available for logo printing: Emergency, Airwolf and Aerospace – please see our website to view dial color options

• A minimum of 50 pieces is required of the same dial color and same logo design.

• Camera Ready artwork for logo sent by e-mail file, preferably jpeg. Logo artwork sent must be exactly how you want it to appear on the dial (images of patches or pins are not acceptable)

• Pantone color numbers (PMS) are required (A Pantone color is an international printing language providing an accurate method for the reproduction and control of color) – we cannot create an image or logo dial without these numbers

• Prepayment in the form of one bank check is required after the image of the watch has been approved

• Shipment of watches are made to one U.S. address – not to individual addresses

• Sales tax is charged only on orders shipping to CT, NY, FL & CA

• Approximately 6 month delivery term after payment has been received and image has been approved

• Prices available upon request”

This is the email from Breitling USA, not Breitling Grenchen in Switzerland, so likely orders outside of North America may not be subject to the same requirements.