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I've had a Breitling Chronomat since 1992. A great watch. It's needed repair twice, though (around 1994 and 2004). It's due for a 3rd repair. Send it to Breitling?

Will they just replace the insides and not fix it?

The second repair was that the watch ran slow, maybe 5 minutes per day.

Now the problems are:

1. date does not change until 5 a.m., possibly because I didn't know not to adjust the date between 8 pm and 3 am.
2. The stop watch is hard to start, not starting all the time.
3. The outside dial is very stiff.
4. The watch stops often. I do not know whether it is because I don't exercise like before or because it's a watch problem. I tried a watch winder at night, but this doesn't help completely.
5. The stopwatch minute hand doesn't seem to move.

That's a lot of problems!

On the bright side, I no longer see exact replacement of my Chronomat. It has a brushed finished, steel with gold accents on the outside dial and buttons. The bracelet is steel "bullets" with 2 thin areas of gold for each link.

Send it to Breitling for a full service. They'll strip it down, replace any parts that need replacing, clean everything, reassemble and oil it and restore the case to like new. You'll then be good to go for another 5 - 7 years.