Inside the luxurious watch realm, you will find a number of symbols who go from a solitary brand without needing a prompt in which brand name helps make it—and the impressive Breitling Navitimer is undoubtedly one of them. Launched in 1952 using a glide-guideline bezel to determine sophisticated navigational computations, the Navitimer was designed with specialist pilots in your mind.
A really preferred vintage Navi may be the “All-Black” 806 from 1959. In order to observe 60 numerous years of that cult timeless, Breitling offered the replica Breitling Navitimer Ref. 806 1959 Re-Edition. Certainly one of my faves from my collection, purchased in July of 2015, is actually a 1970 Venus 178 Breitling 806 Navitimer dual jet with good provenance.
The Case
The 41 millimeters size steel replica Breitling Navtimer case comes with a caseback that’s engraved “Drew Pirie”, who was a golfing professional, initial, and son of Andy Pirie, an Australian commando in WWII who purchased and engraved the watch for him.
Over time, going back towards the authentic in 1952, Navitimers came in 38 mm, 41 millimeters, 43 millimeters, and 46 mm case diameters. The 806, nonetheless, comes only in 38 mm and 41 mm diameters. Particular because of Fred Mandelbaum and Eric for authenticating the watch to me before obtain and Eric for locating and receiving info through a Facebook lookup of Andy Pirie through his kid Drew after I made the buying.
The Bezel
In early 1950s, Breitling collaborated using the AOPA, Airplane Owners and Aircraft pilots Organization, to make the push rule bezel from the replica Breitling Chronomat much more relevant to aircraft pilots. They jointly created the Navitimer. The glide guideline bezel contains two logarithmic scales. The exterior level rotates bi-directionally, and also the interior scale is fixed.
If you’re not just a pilot like the majority of us, you are able to still utilize the replica Breitling Navitimer’s slip tip bezel for further relevant everyday life occasions like computing the tip on the monthly bill, converting mls to kilometers, Fahrenheit to Celsius, as well as bucks to Euros.
The Movement
To honor the Breitling Navitimer 806 replica movement of yesteryear, Breitling generated a completely new in-house manual movement. The in-residence Breitling Make Quality B09, that is, naturally, COSC-accredited, is dependant on the brand’s Caliber 01. This new hand-injury Breitling chronograph movement functions at 28,800bph and provides a 70-60 minutes power reserve.
The very first replica Breitling 806 Navitimers designs came with all-black dials but eventually, the sub-registers have been transformed to white-colored and greater in proportion to make them much more legible. Navitimers 806s were accessible as much as the end from the authentic Breitling business in 1978-1979 and also the contemporary Breitling organization ever since the Navitimer Ref. 806 1959 Re-Release from 2019.
The Conclusion
Together, they are able to conduct a variety of computations. Aviators primarily applied the Breitling Navitimer replica to estimate rate and range. This might assist them to to trace important components for example airline flight periods, energy ingestion, or wind flow influence.
The newest Navitimer Ref. 806 1959 Re-Editions look fantastic, nevertheless, I enjoy the vintage 806 Navtimers and you could typically still discover them cheaper than the modern version. During Thanksgiving 2021, buy Breitling Navitimer 806 Hand-wound 1967 replica watch online at watchesyoga.co, wholesale price and free shipping when order two or more watches!
Technical Data
The Breitling Navitimer Replica
Model: 806
Season: 1970
Body weight: 66 grams (watch brain only)
Case Diameter: 41 mm
Case Density: 12.7 mm (with crystal)
Lug-to-Lug: 48 mm
Lug width: 22 mm
Cup: Acrylic Crystal
Movement: Venus 178 (handbook blowing wind)