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!
