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So bottom line......................Do you think there is a chance or not? If not then I will be contacting the person that I'm in this battle with and tell him.....NO WAY! Thanks and is anyone else having problems adding the full ling, half ling ect banners....the past few days it won't work for me. Thank you all again, Rick

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YOU CAN'T HAVE A GREAT TIME WITHOUT A GREAT WATCH.........MAKE IT A BREITLING

I honestly don't know Rick.

I still believe all of the statements that I have made today - it would really surprise me, but I can't discount it if the claimed sources on other forums are correct.

I've made a couple of phone calls, but not sure that I'll get a response.

THANK YOU !!!

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YOU CAN'T HAVE A GREAT TIME WITHOUT A GREAT WATCH.........MAKE IT A BREITLING

Until someone does a side by side tear down of the movements, we won't know where the differences lie or of what value they add to reliability or performance. FWIW, the half a dozen standard ETA based watches in my collection perform equal or better to the 3 auto Breitlings I own. Doesn't make them bad, just that I'm not seeing higher performance out of these movements. By perform, I am basing it on short (< 1 week) and medium (30 days on wrist) term precision and accuracy. All my auto watches have been very stable in both regards over the life I've owned them. I generally keep detailed timing logs of my watches when I first get them. My findings (fully wound daily on and off wrist and wrist wound only after initial full wind) have been pretty much spot on with the timing machine at my AD.

I would love to know exactly how a B17 differs from a 2824, not for bragging rights, but education.

I think much of this speculation and discussion goes away as Breitling shifts to using in house movements in more of their line.

Dear Roff, please keep us posted.

Thanks.

V.

Well Roff did you ever get an answer?

Not really.

I got some non denial denials - 'Do you really think that we would do that?'

So I'm trying a few more contacts.

My gut says that if they are using Sellita it's not for ebauches, but quite possibly for plates that they can then put their own train, mainspring barrels, balance, etc on top, but still trying to get more clarity.

Thanks for the update. Please keep us posted if you find out anything.