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Hi,

My father recently gave me his Breitling Navitimer 806. Unfortunately, I do not have any pictures at this time to post on the site. The thing that is different about the one I have is that the logo on the face (upper-middle) of the watch is a cursive 'B' as opposed to the plane or AOPA Wings. I know he purchased it in the 1960s, but I haven't seen one with the 'B' instead of the plane or wings. Obviously I cannot ask anyone to verify the authenticity of my watch, since I have no pictures, but can someone please clarify whether or not they've seen a Navitimer 806 with the cursive 'B' logo before? I took the watch in to get serviced about two months ago and there weren't any problems and I received many compliments on it, so I'm assuming that it's authentic, but again, I just wanted to know more about the logo on my particular watch. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks a lot!

- Andrew


OK -- I posted that message a few months ago. I am now home and have taken a number of pictures for the experts to take a look at. I still don't have the serial number as I do not feel comfortable taking the case off the back. Please email me at andruw000@yahoo.com so I can email the pictures. I hope the rest of the pictures help. Oh, and my dad believes he received the watch in either 1965 or 1966 (though it could have been purchased before then).

Thanks for your help!

Hmm,

I must have missed this first time around - apologies.

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I know of one variant of the 806 with a B, but it's not consistent with the mid 60s. It's a first generation (all black, rice bezel) Navitimer from the mid 50s that has a gilded B on the dial. It is extremely rare, and to the best of my knowledge does not have 806 stamped on the caseback. Although you can't validate this without movement pictures, it also has a Valjoux 72 movement rather than a Venus movement.