we often advise NEVER to send a vintage Breitling to Breitling's Grenchen restoration department, here is an example to show why...
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.
