The Breitling Navitimer 8 B01 Watch Review

The Breitling Navitimer 8 B01 Watch Review

The Breitling Navitimer 8 B01 Watch Review

Despite Breitling’s success in the last decade 

The Breitling Navitimer 8 B01 Watch Review

Those are the 4th largest brand within the U.S. by product sales - they’ve frequently been the prospective of critique from watch enthusiasts, largely targeted at their "busy" dials, their gargantuan sizes, as well as their shiny cases. It appears as if new Breitling Chief executive officer Georges Kern continues to be listening. Actually, in a press conference in New You are able to a week ago, Kern acknowledged that he’s using this feedback seriously and is incorporated in the initial phases of overhauling the company. He is at New You are able to to produce the very first new watches under his reign, and also to discuss his plans for Breitling this season and beyond.

Among Kern’s goals are an attempt to update 

And simplify the Breitling selection, overhaul from boutiques (potential known as "lofts"), ad campaigns ("forget about 'Betty around the bomb'") and, most interestingly, take more cues in the company’s incredibly deep archive of watch designs. To that particular finish, Kern visited famous Breitling collector, Fred Mandelbaum to attract inspiration, even getting Mandelbaum’s extensive assortment of vintage Breitlings to New You are able to for that event. He accepted that Breitling watches of history happen to be "too shiny" - even acknowledging some were "tacky" - and vowed big alterations in both positioning and fashions.

In addition to the time

The movement features two other functions: the date and moon phase indication. The moon phase, that is displayed inside the seconds sub-dial in the 6 o’clock, is testimony from the brand’s persistence for excellence. Unlike conventional moon phase indicators, the lunar disc from the Saxonia Moon Phase is attached to the hour wheel and for that reason forever in motion - similar to the moon itself - instead of jumping daily. A seven-step transmission reproduces the synodic month to 99.998% precision. Thus, the moon phase display requires merely a one-day correction every 122 years (theoretically).

Our first glimpse in to the “new” Breitling may be the Navitimer 8 collection, launched with much fanfare a couple of days ago, included in an international road show. Including a 41mm time-and-date model, each day-date, a Valjoux 7750-based chronograph, a worldtimer, and, the flagship model, a chronograph using the in-house caliber B01 movement. I'd the opportunity to get hold of the gathering for some time a week ago, particularly that Navitimer 8 B01 Chronograph and came away having a couple of distinct impressions.