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| Author: | Steviepro.wu [ Thu Nov 21, 2013 3:01 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Calling all Breitling Vintage experts Showoff your knowledge |
In the past couple of weeks, I had a few Breitling fans bringing in their vintage pieces to me. My ever so little of Breitling vintage knowledge just not good enough and don't really want to mislead them with wrong information. So calling all Breitling experts now and tell me some cool facts about these beauties!!     
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| Author: | Roffensian [ Thu Nov 21, 2013 4:33 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Calling all Breitling Vintage experts Showoff your knowl |
Cool fact number 1 - they aren't all Breitlings Cool fact number 2 - meaningful assistance is going to require inside and outside caseback shots and movement pictures. |
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| Author: | chronodeco [ Fri Nov 22, 2013 4:57 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Calling all Breitling Vintage experts Showoff your knowl |
The dial on the triple date is not too "cool" - a really POOR refinishing job! Most likely a fake. |
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| Author: | WatchFred [ Fri Nov 22, 2013 4:59 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Calling all Breitling Vintage experts Showoff your knowl |
+1 on this #4 fake or botched redial too. "cool" enough ? |
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| Author: | Roffensian [ Fri Nov 22, 2013 5:01 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Calling all Breitling Vintage experts Showoff your knowl |
Yeah I immediately assumed that 3 and 4 were duds. #1 is a less common and potentially nice piece but who knows with just dials. |
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| Author: | Bill in Sacramento [ Fri Nov 22, 2013 7:17 am ] |
| Post subject: | Magic 8 Ball says . . . |
. . . the first one is a 1956 ref. 1190 with a redone dial on which the sub-registers are printed too small and "Giro d'Italia" has been added, well, just for fun, I guess. |
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| Author: | Dracha [ Fri Nov 22, 2013 7:22 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Magic 8 Ball says . . . |
Bill in Sacramento wrote: "Giro d'Italia" has been added, well, just for fun, I guess. you dont believe these are watches that could (warning hypothesis) have been give to Giro D'italia stage winners ? They were official sponsors in the late 40ies to mid 50ies |
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| Author: | WatchFred [ Fri Nov 22, 2013 7:38 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Magic 8 Ball says . . . |
Dracha wrote: Bill in Sacramento wrote: "Giro d'Italia" has been added, well, just for fun, I guess. you dont believe these are watches that could (warning hypothesis) have been give to Giro D'italia stage winners ? They were official sponsors in the late 40ies to mid 50ies There was a Breitling Giro d'Italia; mid 1950s bought from the daughter of a Brit who worked as a sports journalist in the 1950s Bill is referring to the printing quality on the dial, me thinks. 
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| Author: | Roffensian [ Fri Nov 22, 2013 8:30 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Calling all Breitling Vintage experts Showoff your knowl |
Giro D'Italia pieces can (obviously not going to say all are) definitely be real - there are a number of different pieces, many of them presented here over the years. |
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| Author: | Steviepro.wu [ Fri Nov 22, 2013 8:34 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Calling all Breitling Vintage experts Showoff your knowl |
Thanks guys, interesting information there. What about the last picture? |
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| Author: | Roffensian [ Fri Nov 22, 2013 9:34 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Calling all Breitling Vintage experts Showoff your knowl |
Steviepro.wu wrote: What about the last picture? As Fred already said...... WatchFred wrote: #4 fake or botched redial too.
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| Author: | WatchFred [ Fri Nov 22, 2013 9:57 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Calling all Breitling Vintage experts Showoff your knowl |
as Roff said in his first reply, we can only talk about the most obvious "tells" here - until we see movements and casebacks (ideally inside and outside) there is no way to tell if watches 1, 3 and 4 contain any authentic components; watch 2 seems to have a correct case, dial and hands are ok. |
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| Author: | Supermoto [ Fri Nov 22, 2013 2:01 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Calling all Breitling Vintage experts Showoff your knowl |
You know you chaps are fantastic with your knowledge, I'm so glad that you are one step ahead of the game Hats off to you Phil |
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| Author: | Steviepro.wu [ Sat Nov 23, 2013 4:53 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Calling all Breitling Vintage experts Showoff your knowl |
Supermoto wrote: You know you chaps are fantastic with your knowledge, I'm so glad that you are one step ahead of the game Hats off to you Phil 
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| Author: | Bill in Sacramento [ Sat Nov 23, 2013 9:27 am ] |
| Post subject: | Since we brought it up . . . |
Here's what I believe, and others are free to believe otherwise. Using the advertising and the words in The Book (pages 112-113), I believe Breitling sponsored bicycle races only in the years 1949-1952. I think the watches made to note sponsorship of the Giro d'Italia were marked "Tour d'Italie," odd as that may seem. I think Steviepro.wu's example shown here is just one of the "fun" pieces that someone has made up in recent years and some do show anomalies, like ill-fitting registers. Sorry that my image of that 1952 ad is completely illegible. |
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