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I've been lurking on this site for the last week and thought it was about time for an introduction. Until recently, my watch lineup has been all quartz ... I own a Raymond Weil, a Seiko, and a Tag Heuer which I have had for 8 years. This was the crown jewel in my collection. I am in sales and recently closed a huge deal that I had been working on for over a year. I decided to use this as an excuse to treat myself to a new time piece. The bug for Breitlings hit me when my wife and I recently took a cruise through the Greek islands ending in Istanbul. We took a tour of the city there with these 2 Texans. One of the Texans noticed I kept checking out the watches every time we passed a shop. He owned his Breitling Aerospace for 10 years and could not say enough good things about it. I had seen Breitlings in the past but didn't know anything about them, let alone how much they cost! I was not planning to spend more then 2 grand until the Lingitis set in. On the way back home, we had a 6 hour layover at London Heathrow. When I realized they had a watch store, that 6 hours flew by! A black-faced, steel bracelet 38mm Navitimer Montbrillant pulled on me but it was grossly overpriced. I loved the watch but am very glad I did not buy it as it seems that UK ADs are way overpriced. Anyway, we got home last weekend but all I could think about was that beautiful Montbrillant. Finding this site did not help my will power. In the following days, I spent hours on this site and the Breitling site checking out different models. On Friday, I broke down and decided to swing down to my nearest AD to look in person. After tearing my hair out for an hour, I narrowed my choice down to a Montbrillant Datora, a Superocean and the Bentley GT. As you can see in the pic below, it was the Bentley GT that spoke to me loudest! I am loving it. Here's a pic I snapped yesterday. Looking forward to spending more time on this great forum!


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Welcome aboard, and very nice write-up. You made a great choice, though I have to say I don't think you could make a bad one if you tried with the Breitling lineup ;)

Keep closing more deals, keep treating yourself, life is too short :)

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Welcome on board!

Nice choice - my favourite Bentley.

You're right about the prices charged in the UK as well. :evil:
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:welcome: great purchase!

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Connoisseur wrote:
it was the Bentley GT that spoke to me loudest!

Don't you just hate it when that happens! :wink: :lol:

You'll probably find that if you hang around here much, quite a few other models will start shouting at you too! :D

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Welcome!

Good choice! :)

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Beautiful watch. Welcome. :fulllingclub:

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:welcome: to the forum.

That's a hell of a place to start.

Where next?

Enjoy the watch and the forum.

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Thanks for the welcome! :wink:
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Welcome. Nice choice indeed. Welcome to the bentley family :lol:

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Gorgeous watch and made more seductive with an interesting story.

ps. if thats your garden in the background then i'm sure you will be adding to your Breitling collection soon

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Connoisseur wrote:
I've been lurking on this site for the last week and thought it was about time for an introduction. Until recently, my watch lineup has been all quartz ... I own a Raymond Weil, a Seiko, and a Tag Heuer which I have had for 8 years. This was the crown jewel in my collection. I am in sales and recently closed a huge deal that I had been working on for over a year. I decided to use this as an excuse to treat myself to a new time piece. The bug for Breitlings hit me when my wife and I recently took a cruise through the Greek islands ending in Istanbul. We took a tour of the city there with these 2 Texans. One of the Texans noticed I kept checking out the watches every time we passed a shop. He owned his Breitling Aerospace for 10 years and could not say enough good things about it. I had seen Breitlings in the past but didn't know anything about them, let alone how much they cost! I was not planning to spend more then 2 grand until the Lingitis set in. On the way back home, we had a 6 hour layover at London Heathrow. When I realized they had a watch store, that 6 hours flew by! A black-faced, steel bracelet 38mm Navitimer Montbrillant pulled on me but it was grossly overpriced. I loved the watch but am very glad I did not buy it as it seems that UK ADs are way overpriced. Anyway, we got home last weekend but all I could think about was that beautiful Montbrillant. Finding this site did not help my will power. In the following days, I spent hours on this site and the Breitling site checking out different models. On Friday, I broke down and decided to swing down to my nearest AD to look in person. After tearing my hair out for an hour, I narrowed my choice down to a Montbrillant Datora, a Superocean and the Bentley GT. As you can see in the pic below, it was the Bentley GT that spoke to me loudest! I am loving it. Here's a pic I snapped yesterday. Looking forward to spending more time on this great forum!


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Good choice, good story... The Heathrow AD was not willing to discount at all for me, feeding me something about a supply problem with Breitling and that he has long waiting lists for most models. Nice guy though, but a shit salesman, given that he's at an airport where most people can (and probably will) buy cheaper overseas.
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