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Gentlemen,

I kindly request your help regarding a Breitling Datora on which I doubt.
Pics are below







Thank you,

Alex

Need full frontal dial pics, rear caseback inner and outer to comment at all

There's a lot of controversie onthese so we may not be able to say yes or no anyway

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"I spent most of my money on Booze, Breitling and Boats. The rest I wasted" - mostly Elmore Leonard

Here it is

like it.

Let me research the gold marks before i comment

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"I spent most of my money on Booze, Breitling and Boats. The rest I wasted" - mostly Elmore Leonard

Your help will be greatly appreciated

have to put my comment in context. I know much too little about the non-chrono Datora to actually say anything relevant, but the dial here shows the typical crispness of the original Breitlings of the period I know rather well -and the hands look typical too. So I like it - and it might still be incorrect, of course.

See what Rene comes up with on the hallmarks, but I see no reason to doubt it based on the photos. As Fred says the dial looks very sharp and the case markings also look like factory original and are consistent with what we should expect. I don't see any issues with the movement either.

Do you have an idea of the value?

Value i dont do on these

Casemaker Ed. Wenger SA seems strange to have wenger make the cases but Breitling neve made their own cases , those were all contracted out

Again , aa far as I know Wenger is/was a watch manufacturer themselves , that might be a caution point , all in all it looks quite good and inline with what i expect from a watch this age with wear and patina

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"I spent most of my money on Booze, Breitling and Boats. The rest I wasted" - mostly Elmore Leonard

just as long as you ignore the "valuations" of some recent ebay listings from Germany and Luxembourg, all the same delusional guy - realistic values are about 5% of his asking prices.

Many thanks for your help gentlemen

This Datora was offered in chrono24 for 3.400€ some weeks ago (Spain). I would say, this price (-10 to -20%) was realistic gor a gold one.

cal_11

I'm not a collector of moonphase watches, but I don't know of any that have something written under the moonphase window.

Here's a 88/28 caseback for comparison. I think original ones had slashes/virgules and not dashes/hyphens.

Here I am being skeptical again. Do you suppose it's because of the shorter daylight hours?

dial on that one makes me wonder, Bill ?