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Hi there to all avid Breitling fans from suuny Cornwall.

Have been a keen Breitling fan for many years and have owned 4 over the years, still got 3 of them

Currently have a Navitimer Montbrilliant on black leather strap, a Chronomat Evolution in steel and gold with the coral red face and the latest addition in October 2010 was a Chronospace, the new model, with Stratos silver face and brown leather strap with deployment clasp.

I have always enjoyed quality watches but Breitling have always had that added something for me and I just love their style.

My only hitch at the moment is that as age marches on, and the eyesight gets a little worse, I find reading the stratos silver dial is getting harder compared to my red Chronoamt Evolution. I am therefore thinking of seeking a trade for a dark faced Breitling of similar age and value, or even adding cash for another model. I like the look of the Superocean Heritage 46 so my next target is to work towards one of those

Outside of Breitlings I enjoy fine Havana cigars and travel regularly to the Caribbean to restock the humidor and attend regualr cigar events in Gibraltar. I run my own fishing tackle business down here in Cornwall and used to work in Adult Education for 20 years as a principal but am happy to be out of the stress areas of that kind of work now.

Hi and Welcome i can confirm as someone with failing mince pies that the SOH 46 and SOH chrono are ok to read, the date is ok as well, but there is another watch that fit's the squint look, the new chronospace bigun

http://www.ablogtoread.com/breitling-ch ... -hands-on/


Merc

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Breitling SOH chrono on + ProII soon to be Pro III
B1 + UTC on Fighter A877
Navitimer World GMT on Navi + leather
SO 46mm on OR + Mesh
Avenger M1 Regatta on Pro 1

Just need to look at trading, or selling the Chronospace off or the wife will go berserk...she already moanst about having 3 Breitlings so she would go mad if I made it 4...I could get away with it if I kept it to 3 of them

Just checked your link and that's the watch I have now with a Stratos silver dial, never knew is was known as the big one although it is a large watch

Just re read your post very slowly this time

a dark faced one, funny really, i was after a chronospace i was going to trade my Breitling Mission




in Watches of Switzerland looking at a trade in Manchester the other day.

Merc

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Breitling SOH chrono on + ProII soon to be Pro III
B1 + UTC on Fighter A877
Navitimer World GMT on Navi + leather
SO 46mm on OR + Mesh
Avenger M1 Regatta on Pro 1

Nice looking, dark faced watch

How old is your watch? Never had a mission, mind you never needed one really as don't go to sea much

it's the 2007 A73321


http://www.breitlingsource.com/watch_de ... al_34.html


just been for a spit and Polish and all battery's replaced, and just unwrapped a NOS breitling rubber pro1 to put on it,


Merc

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Breitling SOH chrono on + ProII soon to be Pro III
B1 + UTC on Fighter A877
Navitimer World GMT on Navi + leather
SO 46mm on OR + Mesh
Avenger M1 Regatta on Pro 1

Nice looking watch, not sure about rubber straps as never worn one? Mine have one s/s and 2 with leather

Welcome to BreitlingSource.

Thank you for the welcome, been reading some very informative pieces on here today

Pro1 rubbers are very comfortable and are now discontinued so getting harder to get hold of, i have a leather deployment as well for the Emergency, i am not a big fan of bracelets unless it's a SS mesh or 18k TT


Merc

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Breitling SOH chrono on + ProII soon to be Pro III
B1 + UTC on Fighter A877
Navitimer World GMT on Navi + leather
SO 46mm on OR + Mesh
Avenger M1 Regatta on Pro 1

Have not tried the mesh but it looks awesome, I'll get some photos of mine taken and get them on here in the next 24 hours so you can see but it's a big watch. I used to think my Chronomat evo was big but this makes it look small

Not very good at taking photos of watches, not sure if it's the camera or me

I have other photos but don't know how to put multiple images in?

Just repeat the process that you used for that one - .jpg files up to 250k can be attached.

I tried that and it just replaced the first file with the new one?