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Well, I was thinking that the battery of a watch is like gas for an engine: neither can work if they're missing. If the owner expects EOL for a battery change and he gets another 3 letters, I find it it can be misleading. But that is only my thoughts.


That is all I meant.

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Instead of EOL, it's telling you that you've arrived in Mozambique.

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This entire thread is cracking me up. If the answer was UEL is an archaic symbol for change the battery no one would care. Nor will the flashing UEL cause your car to run off the road.

IF activating the chrono caused The date to change that would be one thing. Not only that but how does Breitling rectify the issue when it's ETA's movement? Breitling may be big, but not big enough to bully ETA/Swatch.

There are two choices - (1) give up a watch you otherwise like aesthetically and that functions perfectly by getting your money back or (2) just get over it as no big deal.

I've had 2 B1s and an Aerospace. When I learned of the UEL miscoding I gave it less thought than the time it took to type this response. But if it is something you can't live with, raise Cain and get your $$ back.


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SHARKMAN

I don't have or want one, and the Mozambique comment was just for fun.

Well then, that's a pretty amazing function, don't you think???

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SHARKMAN

Not when you've just hit KLBF.

I think we need some SIHH and Pre Basel announcements so that there are better things to discuss!

Well, to be honest guys - I have enjoyed this thread immensely and thanks for your input. My original post was just to find out what UEL was. The fact is that UEL is a typo - it's not going to affect the current world financial crisis and nor is anybody going to die as a result (at least I hope not). I am not particularly bothered by the typo other than that I paid a lot of money for a very nice watch - it does everything I want it to.

I guess the thing that does 'irk' me about the typo is just that it is something not right on an expensive timepiece - a bit like some of the strange sub dial hand movements of B01's that I have read on here recently (it doesn't affect the operation of the watch but it is something that isn't quite right and I haven't read anywhere here that those B01 owners should 'just live with it' or 'go get your money back'). Yes, I could go back and ask for my money back etc but it wouldn't solve that QC point and that in every other respect the watch does do what I want it to.

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TAG Professional (Silver/Gold) 2000 - still going strong and kept as spare when Wolf is away.
Breitling B1 (Blue) 2003 - 2008.
Breitling Airwolf (Black Sunburst) 2008 - Date.

Major difference there for me.

Faulty chronograph hand movements fundamentally affect the accuracy of the chronograph.

Flashing letters don't affect anything. If it sent EOL then it would still be wrong for most non English speakers, but would still indicate that the battery is running down.

Yeah, EOL would still spawn posts as most of us would have no idea what it meant. "BATT" maybe. When I got my NOS B1 it started flashing in the store. They said it was a battery change indicator. I never gave it a second thought and figured it was some odd pilot initialization. You pilots have boat loads of strange I initializations and acronyms.

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Except EOL you.

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Thank you very much Tomcat - I am still laughing now. The next generation will be advertised as 'includes the new flashing 'EOL' indication function'. I'll have to have one and keep getting the good battery changed for a nearly flat one so that I can show it off in all of its flashing EOL glory.

Woohoo

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TAG Professional (Silver/Gold) 2000 - still going strong and kept as spare when Wolf is away.
Breitling B1 (Blue) 2003 - 2008.
Breitling Airwolf (Black Sunburst) 2008 - Date.

That was my thinking, too. (Yes, sometimes I actually do think about these threads during other times of the day.) "EOL" isn't a universally recognized thing. It's an abstract acronym that ETA chose as a low-battery indicator. ETA could have chosen anything as that indicator, and nobody would think twice about it. In that sense, once QC (presumably) found out about the programming error, they "chose" to let it go through anyway, because ultimately, it's a harmless, truly innocuous error that is only in derogation of an already arbitrary symbol that most people don't understand anyway.

Thanks JacksonStone, I can understand that 'other' watch manufacturers may use other acronyms to show that the end of battery life is nigh and that EOL is what we all understand to be End Of Life and that it's not universally recognised. What I am not sure about is ETA - would you mind saying what ETA is (in military terms it's Estimated Time of Arrival ) but in this case is that another manufacturer? The way it's being talked about here is that the Airwolf SQ movement was manufactured elsewhere and then Breitling assembled the watch around that movement, is that correct? I realise that my ignorance is showing here but it may also help others who may have similar queries .

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TAG Professional (Silver/Gold) 2000 - still going strong and kept as spare when Wolf is away.
Breitling B1 (Blue) 2003 - 2008.
Breitling Airwolf (Black Sunburst) 2008 - Date.