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 Post subject: Bi-directional bezel??
PostPosted: Wed Sep 22, 2010 9:09 pm 
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Just purchased a Breilting SuperOcean steelfish. The one thing i noticed is that the bezel is bi-directional?
The person at Tourneau told me that it is not a unidirectional traditional bezel but was Breitlings new design,which is bidirectional.

Has anybody ever seen this before?

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That's news to me. I'm more inclined to think the bezel needs adjusting/fixing.

The reason a ratcheted, uni-directional bezel is used on a diver's watch is so you don't run short of air by the bezel moving. To use a bi-directional one sounds crazy.

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preimel wrote:
The person at Tourneau told me that it is not a unidirectional traditional bezel but was Breitlings new design,which is bidirectional.

:huh A bidirectional bezel on a diver's watch would make zero sense at all, and would be potentially pretty dangerous if you actually used it for dive-time measurement as Sharky said. Me-thinks that Tourneau person doesn't know a damn thing about watches.... or probably anything else for that matter. :roll:

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Driver8 wrote:
preimel wrote:
The person at Tourneau told me that it is not a unidirectional traditional bezel but was Breitlings new design,which is bidirectional.

:huh A bidirectional bezel on a diver's watch would make zero sense at all, and would be potentially pretty dangerous if you actually used it for dive-time measurement as Sharky said. Me-thinks that Tourneau person doesn't know a damn thing about watches.... or probably anything else for that matter. :roll:


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Driver8 wrote:
preimel wrote:
The person at Tourneau told me that it is not a unidirectional traditional bezel but was Breitlings new design,which is bidirectional.

:huh A bidirectional bezel on a diver's watch would make zero sense at all, and would be potentially pretty dangerous if you actually used it for dive-time measurement as Sharky said. Me-thinks that Tourneau person doesn't know a damn thing about watches.... or probably anything else for that matter. :roll:


I was more inclined to believe that myself. It seemed a bit sketchy. Im taking it over to my watch guy today, ill see what he says. Thanks guys

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The person at the Tourneau shouldn't sell watches.
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The Steelfish should have a uni-directional bezel. You will probably find the click spring under the bezel is missing or damaged.

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B'ling wrote:
The Steelfish should have a uni-directional bezel. You will probably find the click spring under the bezel is missing or damaged.

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Exactly what the problem was. Thank you

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