Dear Friends
First of all – Thank you everybody for your remarks and suggestions. They are appreciated !
In order to clarify my position I will mention a few details that I should have told you in my first post.
My wrists are rather small: 14,5 cm. Converting it to British money it would be about 5,7''. I am sure it makes pretty obvious that physically I am not a kind of person that Breitling envisaged its watches for.
As I said in my first post, I have been thinking about buying Superocean or Colt II Quartz. Both with silver dial on leather strap. Both watches received your approval. Just as I ecpected. Some of you mentioned that their dimension could prove to be decisive. Here they are:
Superocean: 44mm diameter, 16,1mm height, 122.5g weight
Colt II Quartz: 41,1mm diameter, 13,3mm height, 87,7g weight.
The above stated dimensions compared with the size of my wrist – 5,7’’ – shows that, however beautiful, Superocean is just simply too big watch for me, whatever measure you consider. I tried it on at my AD yesterday and its height and especially its weight were too much of good thing. I just could not bear it. Even my wife, who usually tolerates many of my whims, frowned with objection.
After that Colt II Quartz (silver dial) came as a relief. Even though it is bigger and heavier than my Montbrillant, with leather strap (tang clasp) it looked quite nice on my wrist. Truth to be said, it did look serious. Not exactly heavy or too large, but firm and serious. Slightly big with its mass and diameter, but on my wrist it was quite acceptable in general look and appearance. Especially after Superocean.
I tried yet another Colt II Quartz – one with black dial. That one was easier to read, no question, but, somehow, it appeared smallish on my wrist. It seemed to me as it was too small. And with too strong a contrast between dial and numerals. Much more like a typical diver’s watch. The one with silver dial is not as easy to read, I admit, but it has its charm and a certain understatement that I am particularly fond of. I like its brushed bezel too. My wife gave her nod to silver dial and that was it. All thing being equal, wife acceptance factor is to be concerned 
Last, but certainly not least, I decided to go for Colt II Quartz was the fact that it was Quartz. In these times when life speeds up constantly I just want to have a good looking watch that I can take off and put back on without ever thinking of winding it and setting the right time. Apart from its precision, Quartz mechanism gives us that luxury of nonchalance that is not to be taken light-heartedly.
Once again: Thank you for your comments and advices.
Kind regards to everybody
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