Hi all,
It's almost 7 years since my last post apologies! Good to see the forum is still going strong and such a great source of information. Recently I've been looking into the 769s, reading part 1 of the famous online Chronomat guide, looking through lots of old posts in this vintage section and the frankenstine section and of course trawling through eBay and other online auctions and websites. As normal with vintage Breitling (I own a 806) there seems to be lots of small variations in the watches, patchy records and possibly questionable internet facts!
With reference to the 769s, I am aware of the various case materials used, that the watch was available with a black dial or silvered dial and also it appears with a silver dial with black surround. I'm aware of the marked and unmarked movements and the striping as highlighted in part 1 of the guide and that the watches were available with illuminous or thin finger models.
I have two questions though, on some of the dials the inner dials at 3 and 9 o'clock cut into the 2,4,8,10 numbers but some dials seem to have smaller numbers which aren't cut into, like the example below. The smaller number dials appear to be more common in black but have seen them on silvered examples too, were these earlier or later dials or any other information?
The second question concerns the arrow seen on most 769 dials between the 5 and 6 o'clock positions. These appears on most of the dials it seems, but in different arrow styles and colours, but I've seen a few pictures of black and silver dials without this arrow at all. There is an example of this up for auction at the moment but not sure if I'm allowed to post a link here so will post an example picture instead. Again, same questions as above really, was the arrow age dependent or any other info on it?
If anyone has a link to a better source of information on these I would be very interested. I did see there was a link to a site needing translation but have lost the thread before translating it!
Thanks in advance
John
