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Author:  mrfredg [ Tue Aug 11, 2015 4:43 am ]
Post subject:  Please help identify this extremely rare Vintage Breitling
Hi everyone,

I was handed down this Breitling when i got married, but even the specialists i take it to have never seen it before.
I believe it is 1960-1964
17 jewels incabloc
all original (except strap)
Runs extremely well

If anyone out there recognises it (see pic), please let me know.
Thanks!!!
Author:  WatchFred [ Tue Aug 11, 2015 5:30 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Please help identify this extremely rare Vintage Breitli
sorry to say, but as nice as it may be to you, it wasn't produced by Breitling
Author:  Dracha [ Tue Aug 11, 2015 5:33 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Please help identify this extremely rare Vintage Breitli
agreed,
this was not originally made by Breitling, sorry to be the bearer of bad news but its a fake
Author:  WatchFred [ Tue Aug 11, 2015 5:44 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Please help identify this extremely rare Vintage Breitli
so we'll soon have an argument about this statement - there ARE "extremely rare" Breitling, but they have (almost) all been either documented in catalogs an/or advertisements; three very, very late models that were launched in the 1970s shortly before Breitling was forced to close down are an exception; but these have appeared in multiple examples over years - and there still is a shadow of doubt about them in the community.

we have spent years documenting all Breitling models - this isn't among them.

Yes, there are some some documented prototypes of models never launched, but these are only minimal adaptations of existing models - and thousands of knockoff pieces claimed to be "extremely rare" .....
Author:  mrfredg [ Tue Aug 11, 2015 6:02 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Please help identify this extremely rare Vintage Breitli
Thanks everyone - i'm fascinated and grateful for your feedback far. One individual suggested it might be a prototype. If that was verified, would it have any value at all?

It comes from a family where i highly doubt they'd ever own a fake, so i'm wondering if that might be its provenance?

Please keep thoughts coming!!

Thanks
Author:  WatchFred [ Tue Aug 11, 2015 6:19 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Please help identify this extremely rare Vintage Breitli
you could help us by supplying addition pictures of inner and outer caseback plus movement. as said, I highly doubt the prototype theory.

the dial & logo print is far inferior to typical Breitling quality - and prototypes were produced w/ impeccable detail.
Author:  mrfredg [ Tue Aug 11, 2015 6:27 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Please help identify this extremely rare Vintage Breitli
Thanks WatchFred. I will do that later today when i have the tools handy and send pics over.
Thanks!
Author:  vintage [ Tue Aug 11, 2015 8:47 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Please help identify this extremely rare Vintage Breitli
There's a cottage industry making these and you can see quite a few, including the OPs, here:

http://www.breitling-museum.com/1960-1969.html
Author:  WatchFred [ Tue Aug 11, 2015 9:49 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Please help identify this extremely rare Vintage Breitli
we have to clarify that this "museum" site should be renamed Fakeling-museum.com
Author:  rick [ Tue Aug 11, 2015 10:02 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Please help identify this extremely rare Vintage Breitli
WatchFred wrote:
we have to clarify that this "museum" site should be renamed Fakeling-museum.com

I SECOND THAT!!!!
Author:  chronodeco [ Thu Aug 13, 2015 6:20 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Please help identify this extremely rare Vintage Breitli
Its got that piñata S. America look.
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