Breitling has been producing a line of special edition watches for the famous British (German owned) luxury automaker, Bentley, called “Breitling for Bentley” ttuitecg. rolex song clean 1 hour. These watches are usually on the expensive side and feature exotic materials. The watch I’m writing about today is called the limited edition “Breitling for Bentley Mulliner Tourbillon”, it has been around for a while but I just noticed it today and thought I’d bring this masterpiece to our viewers’ attention.
The watch is named after a specialized division of Bentley called Mulliner that employs around a hundred employees who work on custom leather, wood, and metal for interiors of Bentley cars, according to customer specifications. Check out our recent article on the special edition Bentley Mulsanne Mulliner Driving Specification car.
The Breitling Mulliner Tourbillon watch is the first Breitling watch to use a tourbillion complication and is completely customizable to customer specifications, just like Bentley cars. Customers can choose the material used to make the case, which can be made out of platinum, yellow gold, white gold, or rose gold. The dial color can be chosen to match the customers’ car interior and ten different crocodile leather straps are available. Customers can also choose a bracelet instead, made out of the same material as the case. The final touch of luxury on this watch is the wooden ring on the back of the watch that comes in 6 choices of veneer.
The Breitling Mulliner Tourbillon watch comes in a rather large 48.7 mm case with screw-down crown and a bi-directional rotating bezel. The dial features double AR coating on the sapphire crystal and the case-back is see-through. The watch is powered by a hand-wound Breitling Calibre 16B mechanical movement, based on an ETA 2892-A2 movement, with a 42 hour power-reserve and is water resistant to 50 meters. Because of the amount of customization and customer involvement in the watch making process, Breitling makes only two of these watches per month with a starting price of around $150,000 each (car not included at that price).
[source: Breitling ] Published on May 8, 2016. Share 6 Pin 3 +1 1 Tweet 1 Share Shares 11 Breitling Cosmonaute Automatic Chronograph Limited Edition Watch Watch Releases 4 Comments September 30, 2009 by Ariel Adams Breitling Cosmonaute Automatic Chronograph Limited Edition Watch
Another retro themed watch from Breitling ? Who'd have thought it? The brand we love to love, but that itself hates the Internet (just visit their website and you'll know what I mean) brings us a new watch with the Breitling Cosmonaute Automatic Chronograph. Sort of an overly simplistic name if you ask me, but I like the whole connection with space travel. Interestingly enough, the watch has the word "cosmonaute" (cosmonaut) in it that I at least associate with Russian astronauts, but the watch is meant to celebrate an American feat. So what exactly is going on here in the Breitling marketing department? It used to be that watch companies mostly focused on the American space industry, but now you have an incredible shift in focusing on the Russian - and to smaller extent Japanese - space programs. I believe it is because Omega has the US market cornered with the Speedmaster Moonwatch, and Russians are buying watches like mad (and will again as soon as the economy rounds itself out a bit). Just some speculation though.
Going back to what the watch is meant to celebrate. Breitling says that for its (Breitling's) 125th anniversary, and they are making this watch to celebrate Scott Carpenter's 1962 mission aboard the Aurora 7 capsule where he first tested out a chronograph watch in space. It was basically an orbital flight around the Earth. I believe he was wearing a Breitling at the time. OK, so that is cool, but what about the watch itself?
The watch does something interesting that you won't easily be able to decipher just from looking at it. See how the dial has 24 hours and not 12? Well the watch goes slower that your normal watch. Actually half as fast only. The hour hand makes its way once around the dial each 24 hours. Why? Cause this is Breitling's way of having a day/night watch. Making it possible to know if it is day or night, especially important in space where it is hard to know whether it is day or night. I like that instead of just redressing another watch, Breitling actually did something different with the Cosmonaute Automatic Chronograph watch.
The 41.50mm wide steel case has a Breitling Caliber 22 automatic chronograph movement that has been COSC Chronometer certified. It is a flyback chronograph and it has a date complication as well. The dial is attractive with plenty of lume, and you get Beitling's signature sliderule bezel for the 3 people on the planet that actually use it. Its value is far more steeped in looking cool than anything else these days. You also have the newer "Steel Air Racer" bracelet that is rigid metal and perforated as you can see. I've never worn this type of bracelet and have no idea if it just looks cool, or maybe actually is cool. Good news is that if you don't like it, Breitling has a universe of other straps and bracelets to choose from.
Like all good Breitling watches, the case is water resistant to 300 meters and the sapphire crystal has been AR coated on both sides. If Breitling is able to achieve 300 meters of water resistant on a chronograph without screwed down pushers, why aren't other companies able to more often? Breitling is further known for having highly polished watch cases, which is no exception here. Putting a little bling back into orbital flight right? The Cosmonaute Automatic Chronograph watch will be limited to just 1000 pieces.
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