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Mortys
 Post subject: Ref. 769
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Hi all,
What do you think of this one?
Seems correct to my limited knowledge, right?
https://www.ebay.nl/itm/222429185242


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 Post subject: Re: Ref. 769
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Hi!
To the best of my knowledge, the chronograph bridge should not be signed, for that period.


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Redial and hands are wrong.
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 Post subject: Re: Ref. 769
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Thanks davedc74 & crt43


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 Post subject: Re: Ref. 769
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davedc74 wrote:
Redial and hands are wrong.


How do you see it's a redial?


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 Post subject: Re: Ref. 769
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Well it says "Geneve" on it and it has a serial number from 1945....
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 Post subject: Re: Ref. 769
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Well it says "Geneve" on it and it has a serial number from 1945....


Aha thanks. Eye for detail very important as well as the knowledge. I have a long way to go


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Redial : for a 1945 Chronomat, Breitling in cursive , no Geneve. +217012 would be slightly incurved for a post 1952 dial
Aftermarket hands , wrong design .
Engraved chrono bridge ok , appeared in 1945 Chronomat
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But as far as redials go, its a really good redial, for the record.
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 Post subject: Re: Ref. 769
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Thanks everyone for the valuable info


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shees you guys are good ! ;-)

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Dracha is trolling us.


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redial & VERY incorrect hands; BUT:
we see very correct steel chronomat 769 w/ mid 40s cases nd the correct Geneve dial and hands used from 1953 to the end of production in 1957.

actually do not remember a post 1950 steel 769 case ;)

Breitling went overboard w/ the mid 40s production quantities on these and used up the cases over a bit more than a decade, even longer than w/ the 765AVI.

tricky ;)
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WatchFred wrote:
redial & VERY incorrect hands; BUT:
we see very correct steel chronomat 769 w/ mid 40s cases nd the correct Geneve dial and hands used from 1953 to the end of production in 1957.

actually do not remember a post 1950 steel 769 case ;)

Breitling went overboard w/ the mid 40s production quantities on these and used up the cases over a bit more than a decade, even longer than w/ the 765AVI.

tricky ;)


It's for sure a complicate subject, recognizing the right ones. Fortunately there is this forum and the well educated vintage breitling identifiers ;)

I am really happy being a part of this forum and digitally getting trained about vintage B's





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 Post subject: Re: Ref. 769
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davedc74 wrote:
Dracha is trolling us.


actually I am not trolling , I am impressed !

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