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You guys may have seen this but I thought it was interesting to see all of these in one place.

http://donindiano.lanetcie.com/watches/breitling/b-1/special_editions

I had no idea Breitling had done this many dials for the B-1

- Peter

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Breitling does a fantastic job printing custom dial LE's for military and civilian needs. Don's site, which you link to, has a great compilation of custom B-1 dials done over the years. What Don has listed is a great but is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to what Breitling has produced.

Not only does Breitling produce custom B-1 dials but also LE Aerospace and Emergency watches as well.

If you really want to see some great watches here is a link to the Breitling Israel site that has pictures of many many LE's done for the Breitling Professional line.

http://www.clubbreitlingisrael.co.il/24 ... -By-groups

Here are mine just because I love showing them.

VF-31 B-1...1 of 60



Tomcat Sunset Retirement...1 of 150

Nice find. There's was a few in there that I hadn't seen before.

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Driver8

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VERY COOL!!! ...would be nice to see a few of those up for sale once in a while.

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BREITLING EMERGENCY + UTC CORAL DIALS
BREITLING AEROSPACE TITANIUM PROF (SOLD)
ROLEX SUBMARINER BI-COLOR BLUE DIAL
LOUIS VUITTON TAMBOUR DIVERS
PANERAI LUMINOR

Depending on what type of aircraft you have flown or been involved with there are several that obviously have a special meaning to the bearer and for so many different reasons.

My favorite is, of course, the Tomcat but there are several others that appeal to me.

Roff (or anybody else who might know or have had an experience) from what quantity is Breitling considering a request for an LE or special edition?

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- This is Ghost Rider requesting a fly-by. - Negative Ghost Rider. The pattern is full.

The minimum is usually 50 pieces.

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Awesome!

love the black cat with the bomb!

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Yep. Some models the minimum is 25, but I think that most of those are discontinued now.

Our LE quantity was about 30ish on the Airwolf.

There were at some stage quite a few military patch editions in the region of 25 or 30 limited, quite a few have passed through my hands. Interestingly, when Breitling themselves issued a limited patch edition in steel, the run was usually not less than 50 ie... the Vulcan B1 etc... however lots of mili patch ones are less. MANY of the squad ones never had any lim. number on the back and the exact number is hard to trace. Some such as the Harrier B1 were actually sent back by many of the crew who ordered because of quality issues, lord knows what happened to this batch, i was not impressed with them. Very few actually made it back out there.

As Roff states the 25 option may not be there now but it was fairly common at one time.

The order I'm currently on is a 25 min. Not sure if it differs for other models or if Breitling is more lenient on the number with mil squadrons.

Our min order for the CF-18 airwolf was 25 in Canada. We ended up with 46 pilots getting them: 60% with blue face 40% with black face.

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Brez

Aerospace
Airwolf CF-18 Limited Edition
TrancOcean Chronograph LE (mercury silver dial, brown croc, folding clasp)

From what I recall all of the 25 minimums used to be quartz pieces, but it wasn't all quartz pieces so may be more complex than that. I suspect that they are a little more lenient with military orders, but don't have any evidence of that.

Yep, the min order for SQ Airwolf of the MC-130P AFSOC Herc was 25 as well (delivered this past summer/fall). We barely made it with 26 orders. LE sequence number engraved on the back.