The Breitling Watch Blog

I’ve posted my video review of the D&B Aerodyn Big Date on Youtube, so I hope you guys enjoy it. Most people tend to say that this watch looks like a Franck Muller, but its got distinct differences and has a style of its own. While this watch has a unique charm that not everyone can appreciate, I really do enjoy this watch and many of Dubey & Schaldenbrand’s designs.

When I started seeing Linde Werdelin watches show up on Timezone, I was quite eager to learn more about them so checked out the website. I’d heard of the brand and saw a few of their pieces, but felt they were quite pricey for what they were… now that I see them trickle into the sub $5000 range, they are interesting ot me again.

The brand was created by Morten Linde and Jorn Werdelin, one a designer and the other the entrepreneur – a common story. They formed the brand in 2002, and their focus is absolutel precision in case design and execution. This is a rather stark difference to many who feel the craft of watchmaking is all in the movement. These fellows appreciate the movements, but also make no bones about the fact that they use relatively stock ETA movements.

They put an enormous amount of effort into creating their cases, spending as much time and energy perfecting the case as many watchmakers spend designing a movement.

The company has rock climbing and skiing instrument digital watches as well as videos on many of their pieces. The even have a graphic novel! Talk about unconventional.

At any rate.. really like the designs, and one of these days I can see myself picking up one of them.

The new Panerai Luminor Marina PAM366 appeals to their Chinese market with the Chinese Character “Fu” printed on the dial at 6 o’clock. The watch features the tried and true Panerai OP II Movement, and will be limited to 1500 pieces. The watch will retail for $4400US.

Only time will tell, but it will be interesting to see how well received this watch is by the Chinese buying public. With such a small run of 1500 pieces, it shouldn’t be difficult to sell, however.

While I can appreciate the watch, I think they should have made it with a sandwich dial instead. Kudos to Panerai for taking this step, however.

I think I found my new grail watch. Well, achievable Grail at least…

One of the most beautiful, yet understated dress watches I have ever seen, with a very unique complication that sets it aside from the other watches out there. The Senator Diary has an alarm that can be set to go off any time in the next 30 days ahead! The alarm allows you to specify a date for it to go off as well in addition to the time.

The exhibition case back of the Senator Diary is also very nice looking, as most Glashutte Original watches are.

This beauty features GO’s in-house manufacture Calibre 100-13 and totals 600 components! And of course also features GO’s signature 3/4 plates. Case measures a healthy 42mm in diameter.

Available in stainless steel with black dial for $18,100 and in rose gold with silver dial for $29,400. The Rose gold version is my grail! Hell, a lot of the higher end Glashutte Originals end up feeling like Grail watches to me. I just really like their stuff!

Just posted a new Video Review of my wife’s Breitling SuperOcean Heritage 38. This is the 38mm diameter model that features Breitling’s new Calibre 37 movement, and is the first watch to feature this movement. While ths is a mens watch, the size worked well on my wife’s wrist and we went with the matching SuperOcean Heritage watches.

Two new Eterna’s to hit the street… which are interesting since these seem to harken back to their glory days rather than the newer direction that brand had been taking. Those guys over at Eterna can’t seem to make up their mind, similar to Zenith. But maybe its just because these are “Heritage” models.

I was digging the new Eterna In-House movements, and now we’re back to ETA. I understand that Eterna created ETA, but still.

Eterna Heritage Pulsometer Automatic Chronograph
Limited Edition of 1,942

Diameter: 42mm
Thickness: 13mm
Sapphire Crystal
50m Water Resistance
Movement: ETA 2894-2
MSRP: 3,950 CHF

Eterna Heritage Super Kon Tiki Diver
Limited Edition of 1,973
Diameter: 44mm
Thickness: 14mm
Sapphire Crystal
200m Water Resistance
Movements: ETA 2824-2
MSRP: 2,950 CHF

In January, Gerald Genta and Daniel Roth, two luxury watch brands under the Bulgari Umbrella were consolidated into the main Bulgari brand and now all watches will feature the Bulgari namesake and branding. The newest watches from this integration were unvieled at Baselworld.

The “merger” was meant to help strengthen the Bulgari brand, allowing it to benefit from the horological expertise of the Genta/Roth brands. The dials of the new watches will still bare their original Roth or Genta logos in addition to the Bulgari branding.

See some of the new pieces:

Stone Cold Steve Austin saw my write-up earlier this week about his watches and sent me an email! So cool. He also emailed me a pic of his latest acquisition, a Breitling SuperOcean Heritage Chronograph 46 Limited Edition with the white dial and black dual registers.

He indicated that he picked it up in Vegas when he was there watching the UFC Fight recently. I can’t help but notice that he has great taste in watches – very similar to my own. Pic below sent from Steve Austin himself:

On a side note, I can’t wait to see the Expendables movie that he’s in with Sly Stalone, Jet Li and Jason Statham coming out in August!!!