Yes I think offering a 41mm Colt is a good play by Breitling. The Colt is typically an entry level piece, so they need to compete with companies offering more traditionally-sized/smaller pieces. 41mm puts it in Omega SMP / Tudor BB territory, and that's a market that Breitling can ill-afford to ignore. Good move.
Plus it's a handsome piece. No horrible overlapping numbers, well balanced dial, more traditional bezel, no "Bucks" in sight. I like it a lot.
And if only Breitling got their backside's in gear to FINALLY produce a bl**dy three-hand movement in-house, that could even have been a Submariner alternative.
Talking of a three-hand "in-houser", I remember an interview with Girardin back in 2012 when he claimed they were working on just such a movement, but were struggling to price it right as most of their sales are chronographs. Four years later and we're still waiting.
I understand Breitling's cash-cow lines are not the (historically-named) Aeromarine models, but even so, in these times of the major companies moving away from outsourced ETA/Sellita movements, a simple, workhorse, in-house three-hander makes huge sense to me. Tudor are selling the in-house BB for £2500 which is a bargain of astounding proportions, so I'm not sure why Breitling can't produce what is a relatively simple movement when compared to the B01 to use in the "higher end" models in the dive range. After all, there's a HUGE market for three-hand dive watches and producing a genuine challenger/alternative to the PO and the Sub seems like a fairly obvious business idea to me.....
