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PostPosted: Fri Sep 02, 2016 1:52 am 
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we often advise NEVER to send a vintage Breitling to Breitling's Grenchen restoration department, here is an example to show why... :wowzers

whatever the condition was before it went to Switzerland to be butchered, it must have been incomparably better.

EVERYTHING here is wrong

- a gilt service dial in a 1960 steel case
- a logo combination Breitling invented for their restoration work, AOPA lettering inside the wings was never combined with the Breitling logos or the cursive "B".
- blatantly incorrect service hands - the shape of ALL the hands is incorrect.
- a "red accents" sliderule on an all black dial ...
- yes, even the crystal seems wrong, but that's the only thing easy to correct.

offered for auction by auctionate w/ a valuation of $9,000 - after a restoration bill of close to $2k, for a collector it is now a worthless POS w/ parts value (movement and case seem correct) only.

what a shame. :guns: :guns: :guns:

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