Judging by Kurts article, this one seems to be quite a rare bird, is it all correct? Do the hands look relumed? Also first time I heard a reference to Portuguese Breitling centres, anyone heard about those? Looks like a nice example though if alls correct and if the dial condition is good.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/SUPER-RARE-B-ON ... 35c0c6bcdcQuote:
This dial is so rare that many of you will never have heard of it before. When navitimers were first made in 1954 and 1955, they had no reference number. The production records just called them "AOPA"for the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association for which the watch was made.The Navitimer was the association's official watch, and Breitling needed no other name for it. Very few were sold outside of AOPA.
When I say that very few were sold outside of AOPA, this watch was one of the very few.To the extent there were any of these watches, they may have been sold through Wakmann's Portuguese Breitling distribution facility which was started well before the U.S. facility, but that is speculation on my part since little is known about the years of operation for that facility.Chances are, however, that the watch was sold in Eurpoe, as AOPA seems to have had an exclusive arrangement in the United States. Breitling would later go through a series of labels on navitimers that were not made for AOPA. Common among these were the AOPA shield with no lettering, and later, from 1964, the Breitling Twin Jet logo.
This may be the only one of these watches that you will see on eBay for years. They are less well known than the Valjoux Navitimer (one of which I sold last week) partially because they are even less common.
This is your opportunity to own a super rare collector's item from my personal collection.
The Navitimer and all of its functions work as they should.
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