WatchFred wrote:
was surprised, and Georges has now corrected that; the Navitimer 8 is 43mm, not 44.
Back in the game!
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| Author: | Dracha [ Thu Jan 18, 2018 10:53 am ] |
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| Author: | WatchFred [ Fri Jan 19, 2018 8:01 am ] |
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Kodiak wrote: Dracha wrote: Rob S. wrote: Hope it's 40-42mm. Sent from my LG-H931 using Tapatalk Georges said on Instagram 44 and 40 mm Saw that too, chronograph to be 44 and automatic to be 40mm, a little bummed, 41-43 is my sweet spot, will have to see details. was surprised, and Georges has now corrected that; the Navitimer 8 is 43mm, not 44. |
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| Author: | Kodiak [ Fri Jan 19, 2018 8:10 am ] |
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WatchFred wrote: was surprised, and Georges has now corrected that; the Navitimer 8 is 43mm, not 44. Back in the game!
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| Author: | WatchFred [ Fri Jan 19, 2018 8:25 am ] |
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think I can safely say that you'll see several watches in your 41-43mm "sweet spot" quite soon. |
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| Author: | hentaiboy [ Fri Jan 19, 2018 11:42 pm ] |
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WatchFred wrote: think I can safely say that you'll see several watches in your 41-43mm "sweet spot" quite soon. Ahh...so no 38mm Top Time remake then. Panerai has just announced a 38mm Luminor. The big watch fad is officially over 
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| Author: | Rob S. [ Sat Jan 20, 2018 4:29 am ] |
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 Sent from my LG-H931 using Tapatalk |
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| Author: | Moana43 [ Sat Jan 20, 2018 6:06 am ] |
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The brushed finish on the case is a great sign -- hope we'll be seeing this more generally from Breitling. Wonder if there will be a brushed Navi bracelet to go with this one? |
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| Author: | ernesto [ Sat Jan 20, 2018 3:06 pm ] |
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hentaiboy wrote: Ahh...so no 38mm Top Time remake then. Panerai has just announced a 38mm Luminor. The big watch fad is officially over I pray for the big watch fad to be over. My dream is to have a navitimer GMT at 38mm. Until now the Navitimer 92 is the closest to this. |
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| Author: | Kodiak [ Sun Jan 21, 2018 8:47 am ] |
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Saw a Jan. 28th unveil date. Also talked about blacksteel on the automatic, not sure if there will be multiple options. |
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| Author: | Moana43 [ Sun Jan 21, 2018 9:25 am ] |
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Am also seeing some conjecture that the "wings" logo will be phased out in favor of the traditional "B" logo across the brand... |
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| Author: | Moana43 [ Sun Jan 21, 2018 10:02 am ] |
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I "like" the way you do things, Fred...
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| Author: | Moana43 [ Mon Jan 22, 2018 7:20 am ] |
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Just for fun, so long as the prolonged Navitimer 8 tease is going on, I'm going to engage in an exercise of pure random speculation. Time to think outside of the box! So, here goes: 1. Based on the Instagram posts of Georges Kern, we know that the inspiration for the Navitimer 8 comes from the "Huit Aviation" department, which was making Breitling's 8-day power reserve cockpit instruments. 2. The "Breitling 8" ad posted by Georges dates to 1941 (and is found on Page 84 of "Breitling: The Book"). Indeed, the Arabic numerals and the minutes/seconds track on the dial mirror almost exactly the look of the onboard Models 633 and 634 dating from 1941 (Page 88 of Breitling: The Book). 3. So, it would seem that the Navitimer 8 may well be a tribute to the aviation clocks/watches from the period that immediately preceded the era of the "modern" Navitimer. The model name "Navitimer 8" serves to distinguish it from the rest of the Navitimer line, and allows it to be something different -- something "related" to the ultimate modern Navitimer, but capturing the spirit of the immediately preceding decade in terms of cockpit clocks/watches. 4. All that being said, I think it's likely that the Navitimer 8 will not have a circular slide rule. The photographs thus far seem to indicate the absence of this feature. That could be explained by some Photoshop work to keep the intrigue alive, but, even if the slide rule has been airbrushed out, the physical layout of the dial/bezel depicted in the photos thus far doesn't seem conducive to housing the modern Navi slide rule. 5. Yet, Georges notes that the Navitimer 8 does, in fact, have a rotating bezel. Hmmmmm... 6. So, were there pilot watches from the "Huit Aviation" era that did not have circular slide rules, but did have rotating bezels? Indeed, there were! Page 87 of Breitling: The Book shows a number of such watches from the 1941 catalogue. The rotating bezels included a triangular marker that could be used to time minutes or hours -- a rough chronograph of sorts that was common on a number of such watches from different brands during that era. 7. The thing is though, that, on a watch with a B01 chronograph movement, like the Navitimer 8, such a feature would seem to be a poor substitute for the precision of the chronograph itself. That being said, even on a chronograph, there is still a place for a more full-scale timing bezel. 8. Putting all that together makes me wonder whether the Navitimer 8 might actually house an internal timing bezel, based on the concept of the pilot's watches from the 40's -- but, perhaps supplemented to include a more useful version, like the bezel currently found on the Superocean Heritage models? OK, well, that exhausts my flight of fancy for now. Guess we'll be learning more soon...
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| Author: | WatchFred [ Mon Jan 22, 2018 7:52 am ] |
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28th |
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| Author: | WatchFred [ Mon Jan 22, 2018 7:59 am ] |
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and the rotating bezel w/ the triangular marker was used on pilot chronographs too, Breitling and others - best known example might be the original Breguet Type XX here's the Breitling Huit ref. 767 from the 1946 catalog: 
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| Author: | Dracha [ Mon Jan 22, 2018 8:00 am ] |
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Moana43 wrote: Time to think outside of the box! So, here goes: out of the box he says |
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