The Breitling Watch Source Forums

in the last episode of topgear jeremy said that bmw m3/audi rs4 owners are cocks that also where Breitlings.

more specific : the one with a special button, i ment breitling emergencies

Ha ha! Did he really? I recorded Top Gear and haven't seen it yet.

Guess what? I drive an M3 too!

The fact is though, Jeremy Clarkson is both a HIGHLY entertaining bloke and a total knob-end at the same time, so I'm more than happy to let him off!!

_________________
Driver8

Site Moderator

Just watched it, he made rerference to the "watch where you press a button and a helicopter appears"
He then saw a guy in the audience wearing an Emergency with UTC with a Coral Dial. Looked rather nice
Funny how he gave Breitling a bashing, when he wears one himself!

_________________
Breitling Super Avenger White, Steel
Breitling Superocean Heritage 46 Black, Ocean Racer
Rolex Submariner Bi-Metal, Yellow Gold/Blue
Panerai 112, Black Leather (Soon Hopefully!)

I absolutely love Top Gear! However, I only get to watch bits of the show via uploaded videos on the internet. May, Hammond, and Clarkson play so well off each other, it is hilarious to watch!

As I have been watching more of the show, I have been wondering what people think of him over there in Europe, and maybe you guys could let me know since you live over there!

He seems to be a bit of a man against authority, he always makes fun of environmentals, and other celebs/politicians in that region.

And boy does he like to give to the Americans from time to time....

_________________
Collin
SuperOcean- Coral/Diver Strap

I watched that episode of Top Gear last night, and I had to laugh at that Breitling Emergency bit! (I think it was the coral dial that put him off!! Sorry Doc!)

I think they're a great team on there - they all amuse me, even when Clarkson acts like a being a total clown... like slagging off a BMW! Basically they get to do all the stuff that we'd all love to do ourselves. I must rate Clarkson as I let him off his regular Beemer bashing, and I'll even let him off his Emergency attack too!

He's quite into his watches as well actually - as Damian said, he's got at least one Breitling (but probably not an Emergency in his collection! ), and I've seen him with both a ubiquitous Bond Seamaster (yawn!) and a PO. Not sure what that one is that he seems to be wearing a lot this series though.....

_________________
Driver8

Site Moderator

Here's the video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eulvykgx ... re=related

_________________
Collin
SuperOcean- Coral/Diver Strap

Here are Jeremy's views on watches...thought I would share with you guys...but again we shant forget he has a Breitling chronomat

Jeremy Clarkson on Watches

* From: "Alex W." <ingilt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
* Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 12:24:00 +0100

Seen in today's Sunday Times ...

I'm calling time on silly watches
Jeremy Clarkson

After many years of faithful service, my watch has gone wrong. It just
chooses random moments of the day to display meaningless times which,
speaking as the world's most punctual person, is a nuisance. Especially as I
shall now have to go to a shop and buy a replacement.

Yes, I know I could send it to the menders but, because I really am the most
punctual person in the world, what am I supposed to do while it's away? Use
the moon? For me, going around without a watch is worse than going around
without my trousers.

Of course I have a back-up. My wife bought it for me many years ago with her
last salary cheque and it's very beautiful. But sadly my eyes are now so old
and weary that I can't read the face properly. Which means I turned up to
meet an old friend one hour late last week. And that, in my book, is ruder
than turning up and vomiting on him.

It also brings me on to the biggest problem I've found in my quest to find a
new timepiece. There's a world of choice out there but everything is
unbelievably expensive and fitted with a whole host of features that no one
could possibly ever need.

I have flown an F-15 fighter and at no point in the 90-minute sortie did I
think: "Damn. I wish my watch had an altimeter because then I could see how
far from the ground I am." All planes have such a device on the dashboard.
Similarly, when I was diving off those wall reefs in the Maldives I didn't
at any time think: "Ooh. I must check my watch to see how far below the
surface I have gone." Thoughtfully, God fitted my head with sinuses, which
do that job very well already.

You might think, then, that my demands are simple. I don't want my new watch
to open bottles. I don't want it to double up as a laser or a garrotte. I
just want something that tells the time, not in Bangkok or Los Angeles, but
here, now, clearly, robustly and with no fuss. The end.

But it isn't the end. You see, in recent months someone has decided that the
watch says something about the man. And that having the right timepiece is
just as important as having the right hair, or the right names for your
children, or the right car.

Over dinner the other night someone leant across to a perfect stranger on
the other side of the table and said: "Is that a Monte Carlo?" It was,
apparently, and pretty soon everyone there was cooing and nodding
appreciatively. Except me. I had no idea what a Monte Carlo was.

Then we have James May, my television colleague, who has a collection of
watches. Yes, a collection. But despite this he has just spent thousands of
pounds on a watch made by IWC. Now I know roughly what he earns and
therefore I know what percentage of his income he's just blown on this watch
and I think, medically speaking, he may be mad.

It turns out, however, that his IWC, in the big scheme of things, is
actually quite cheap. There are watches out there that cost tens or hundreds
of thousands of pounds. And I can't see why.

Except of course, I can. Timex can sell you a reliable watch that has a back
light for the hard of seeing, a compass, a stopwatch and a tool for
restarting stricken nuclear submarines, all for £29.99. And that's because
the badge says Timex. Which is another way of saying that you have no style,
no sense of cool and that you may drive a Hyundai.

To justify the enormous prices charged these days, watchmakers all have
idiotic names, like Gilchrist & Soames, and they all claim to make
timepieces for fighter pilots and space shuttle commanders and people who
parachute from atomic bombs into power boats for a living. What's more, all
of them claim to have been doing this, in sheds in remote Swiss villages,
for the last six thousand years.

How many craftsmen are there in the mountains I wonder? Millions, by the
sound of it.

Breitling even bangs on about how it made the instruments for various
historically important planes. So what? The Swiss also stored a lot of
historically important gold teeth. It means nothing when I'm lying in bed
trying to work out whether it's the middle of the night or time to get up.

Whatever, these watch companies give you all this active lifestyle guff and
show you pictures of Swiss pensioners in brown store coats painstakingly
assembling the inner workings with tweezers, and then they try to flog you
something that is more complicated than a slide rule and is made from
uranium. Or which is bigger and heavier than Fort Knox and would look stupid
on even Puff Diddly.
I think I've found an answer, though. There's a watch called the Bell & Ross
BR 01-92 which, according to the blurb, is made in Switzerland from German
parts by a company that supplies the American military and is used regularly
by people who make a living by being fired from the gun turrets of Abrams M1
tanks while riding burning jet-skis.

Who cares? What I like is that it's very simple and has big numbers, but
what I don't know is whether it's reliable and whether people laugh at you
because of it at dinner parties. Anyone got one? Anyone know?

He sounds a bit grumpy, probably because none of the larger brands would give him a watch for free. Easier to get free rides in a sportscar...

I don't mind his arguments, but after those he really can't be wearing anything else than a Timex - or he's as pompous as those he's mocks...

_________________
Collection: http://s540.photobucket.com/albums/gg32 ... mview=grid

Typical Clarkson nonsense! He's probably the most opinionated and also hypocritical man in the entire world.... and it always makes me laugh! If it's controversial, you can guarantee he'll say it. Hiliarious!

_________________
Driver8

Site Moderator

ha ha.

Well breitling got a "free" plug, so its all good.

_________________
Breitling for Bentley Motors
Breitling Navitimer World
Breitling Super Avenger Black Steel LE 3000
Breitling for Bentley GMT Midnight Carbon Black Steel LE 1000
Hublot Big Bang Aero Bang Steel
"You gotta pay to play..."

I found this thread from the dead... but I love Top Gear. I can tell its from the episode when Clarkson driving the E92 M3 while theyre also driving the C55, and the Audi RS4 if I can remember...

I'm sure you remember my Avatar then.

_________________
Montbrillant Datora

Heres a video on youtube of the part of that episode. It shows Clarkson's watch. Its really funny too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEOnhxFFXbg#t=6m39s

_________________
Montbrillant Datora

Hey, how do you link a video to start at a specific time? I never knew you could do that.

_________________
"Don't Touch The Watch." - Patrick Bateman