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This is my first post, and I would first of all like to apologise for shamelessly leeching on your knowledge. This is my old Breitling which was my constant companion for about 15 years until it took a nasty fall due to a broken strap. Now many years later I´m thinking about restoring the watch to its former glory, but first I would like to know a little about it. I picked it up around 1987 in a workshop where I used to work. It was used to time piecework, but as they had gotten a shiny new stopwatch they did not need it any more and gave it to me. Now I wonder if you can help me with determining its age, the serial number table I found says 1945, but I think that seems far too old. I have gotten an estimate on about 800-100 US$ for restoring the watch, is this a fair sum for this watch or will I throw good money on a sub par watch?

IMO 800-1000 is 'a bit' much for a general service (which it seems to be , plexi's are service items and fitting the small hand after service needs to be done anyway)

If I would send something like that in for service I'd expect to pay 300-500 , which the watch is definitely worth if you ask me

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Case looks authentic/original, but the dial looks like a potential old refinish job (perhaps done in the late 1950's?). The register numbers are a little inconsistent, and the overall style looks more like a mid/late 1950's Breitling. Thoughts?

dial design, logo & hands are correct for very late 1040s or early 1950s assembly; case is mid 1940s. not unusual at all, Breitling used up case stocks over years; have an even later 788 in a mid 1940s case.

a better pic would tell us more if it's a redial, print isn't too crisp.

Thank you for your replies! I will try to post a better picture of the dial when I get home from work. I had huge trouble to get pictures to fit the requirements for posting here, file size and pixel width and height, do you have any helpful tips on picture posting?

try uploading to an image hosting site, like postimage.org, and putting the links to the images in the forum post

Thank you for all the help. Here is a link to a picture that is somewhat better, I do not know why but I have always been crap at taking pictures of watches. Anyway here goes:
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hard to judge, but probably factory original; font is correct, the missing "crispness" might be a focus issue.
dial produced 1947/8 to early 1953