Why don't all Breitling authorized service centres in every country around the globe offer the same warranty period for the respective maintenance and overhaul service? This is right from the Breitling website. For example in the US, UK, Australia and Scandinavia the warranty for any intervention is 12 months. In Canada, overhaul service warranty is 24 months and no warranty period is specified for a maintenance service. In the larger EU countries (France, Germany, Italy, Spain) and Switzerland, any intervention is covered by a 24 month warranty.

Is it consumer protection legislation that determines the length of warranty (in some cases), or something else?


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Adjusted to whatever the minimum period the law & market condition of the various countries dictate would be my guess...

Breitling overhauls by Breitling Service Centers have a 12 month warranty on the work done for watches that have the personalized movements.

Any Breitling Authorized Service Centre is Authorized to service inhouse movements if they have an inhouse movement certified watchmaker. This typically means sending their watchmaker off to Switzerland to get trained and certified. It is up to the service centre to decide if they want to justify the investment.

At least in the US, that isn't the case. Breitling SA in the US is not allowing independent watchmakers to be certified on the Manufacture Movements.

'Independent' watchmakers? Wessa was referring to watchmakers at the Authorized Service Centres - d'you mean they're not allowing those to be certified on the in-house stuff (in the US)? Interesting if so.