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Man I like my rider tabs! Yesterday at work, I managed to bang my Crosswind Special against the wall in my office and thought "oh crap"! Looked at my watch and 2 rider tabs (the 30 and 45 marker tabs) were all scratched up on the polished part near the crystal. Wish I took a pic of it prior to polishing it all out when I got home, but was too anxious to get the scratches out. A few minutes with the cape cod cloth on the rider tabs and watch looks like new again!

Can't help but thinking if those tabs weren't there, it would be the crystal that would have taken the hit against the wall. Good job rider tabs. Lol.

All shiny again...

Perhaps getting rid of the rider tabs is a cunning plan by Breitling to raise some income from all the scratched crystals they'll have to be replacing in future!

Your CWS looks great!

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Driver8

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Maybe Breitling should make these............
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/UK-SELLER-SEI ... 43b24843be

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Breitling B-1 1999
Breitling Chrono Superocean 2004
Casio G Shock
Citizen Eco Drive AT4000-02E (for gardening)
Seiko 5 SNZG15J1
Hamilton X Wind LE

As much as, thanks to Don, I love my Chronomat 01 LE and as much as it has been discussed here on many occasions, I still don't understand why Breitling changed the tabs on the new generation.
After all it was the rider tabs and the slider rule bezel On the Navis that made Breitling a Breitling.

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"It is just a matter of time!"

You're giving Breitling way too much credit.

Thanks guys! You know you're a certified watchnut when you come home after a long day at work and instead of eating dinner, you sit there trying to polish out scratches on your watch. Lol. My wife was like, what are you doing?! Umm...well, there's scratches on my rider tabs!

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18k Rolex Datejust / Breitling Crosswind Special / Patek SS Nautilus / Bvlgari Diagono Chrono / Bvlgari Scuba / Omega Speedmaster Professional / 60s Omega Constellation

My sincere condolences to your watch widowed wife. (Alliteration furnished @ no charge.)

Take care of that Crosswind Special! Not many floating around lately.

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Crosswind Special - Slate dial
Skyland Avenger - blue dial
Steelfish - blue dial

This is the watch that got me hooked, I saw my friends and now I have 3 super avengers all stainless, love them all

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5 Super Avengers
1 Super Avenger 2
1 Super Avenger limited edition
1 Super avenger night mission
1 Limited edition chronomat Boston Celtics
Navitimer GMT
Transocean Chronograph Unitime
2 Omega planet ocean chronographs
1 Tag heuer Monaco

Beautiful looking piece! Glad you could nurse it back to health.

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Collection under construction

Thanks again all. It certainly is my favorite watch, and I'll be sure to keep it in tip top shape.

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18k Rolex Datejust / Breitling Crosswind Special / Patek SS Nautilus / Bvlgari Diagono Chrono / Bvlgari Scuba / Omega Speedmaster Professional / 60s Omega Constellation

Beautiful watch. Pics like these test my aversion to chronos.

Thanks!..well, in that case, here's more pics of it to lessen your aversion!

close call there. Looks like it scrubbed up pretty nicely though

Enabler!