hi everyone - I saw this show up in an auction recently:
Initial thoughts were that it must be a redial as I've never seen anything similar, though a bit of online sniffing around shows there was a similar one with missing bezel, which was serviced last year and posted on FB by the watchmaker:
A similar watch went under the hammer in Paris about 15 years ago:
https://www.gros-delettrez.com/lot/5730/1167428-breitlingchronomatic-white-ref?search=&
Things that make me wonder...
- It's got just SWISS and not T SWISS T at 6
- I don't recall seeing a Chrono-matic (other than Navitimer) with numerals instead of batons
- There don't appear to be many photos of a similar watch online... can't see it in catalogs etc
- The marks on the dial at 1, 2 and 4 on the auction and the service watch look like it could be the same dial
Has anyone seen one of these before? Is it some short-lived mid-70s variant that bombed in the looming quartz crisis, or a fake-o?
cheers,
Ewan
