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Hi friends...this is my first post...glad to be in this forum...and im from indonesia...i just saw this breitling a30022...and fall for it...please give opinion about this watch..and the price (about 2250 -2300 us)...is it fair ??...
Thanks for comments

the dial is quite strange, is it corroded or something? that gold color seems to be spilling also over the white subdials...
I haven't seen this model in a gold dial, usually they are with a black dial / white subdials or blue dial / cream subdials.

The so called "Navitimer 92" (A30021 and A30022) usually sells around 2000 - 2500 euro, might be cheaper depending on the condition and package (box, papers etc). It was produced between 1992 and 1996, and you can find more details about it here: http://www.breitlingsource.com/watch_de ... r_172.html

I have the A30021 in blue dial and cream subdials, and like it, although it's a bit small for today's tastes (only 38mm). Runs great, within COSC limits (gaining 4-5 seconds per day), although it's not a chronometer certified model. But I don't know about the one in your pictures, looks a bit fishy to me (original but with a damaged / corroded dial?). For that money I believe you can find one in a better shape.

Here's a picture of mine

Greetings cryo.. happy to read your comments...i did some search on google with 'tropical breitling....and i found almost the same watch....
Have you seen any tropical dial on breitling?...

Btw the seller said that the dial was blue...

Unusual 'tropical' dial fading that happened to a small number of blue dials of this era. Limited if any impact on price as it isn't the same collectability as a similar fade on (say) a Rolex so standard pricing advice from FAQs applies - sold items on eBay and dealer asking prices on Chrono24.

I don't know what to say... from what I see on google, the only pictures of this "tropical" A30022 are from a single website selling preowned watches. I cannot bet on it, but to me it looks like a later modification of the dial, rather than an original one. Looks like somebody blown it with gold dust, and not in a very careful manner either (you can see that some of the gold color is accidentally spilled on the subdials and internal slide rule), and doesn't seem to be applied uniformly. I personally would stay away from it....

Roff, so this was a regular blue dial, but somehow faded in this strange manner?

Correct.

Roff...Is there anyting to check to make sure that the watch is ok...?

Not sure what that means. It's real if that's the question, mechanically you would need to have it inspected which effectively means it would need a service anyway as the caseback would have been removed.