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Dee436
PostPosted: Fri Nov 25, 2011 11:49 am 
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Can anyone recommend an AD in lancashire to remove the calf leather strap on my Navi 01 and replace with and size my new Navi bracelet?

I did visit 2 jewellers today neither of which would attempt this, both were AD's for a number of high end watches and one is also a Breitling AD (They advised they would need to send the watch to Breitling for this procedure??)

I know a lot of you do this yourself so I bought a Bergeon 6767 hoping to have a go.
Decided against it when I realised I could not differentiate between the pointed and forked end of the tool.
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Dee436 wrote:
Decided against it when I realised I could not differentiate between the pointed and forked end of the tool.



Lol - eyes not what they used to be ? :lol:

Can't help you on a Lancashire AD, sorry, but amazed that a Breitling AD wouldn't do this for you. To be honest I wouldn't trust most sales staff to do it, but any AD with a watchmaker on site should be able to do it for you.
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Yep the eyes have had it, can just about make out the time on the Navi :)

I was suprised when they suggested sending it away too
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Sending it away is ridiculous.

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Bescoby Jewellers
25 Rochdale Road Shaw, Oldham OL2 8QX
01706 290 233

They're restoring my 68 Navi at the moment, they should be able to help you

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Harrington & Hallworth
Ashton-U-Lyne
0161 339 5100

These are an AD and I bought a strap from them yesterday
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Ok thanks I will give them a call
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I've always done all my bracelet adjustments and replacements myself. It's not a complicated operation at all. As long as you can handle small screws and have some patience you should be able to do it yourself.

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Done it :)
With a combination of 2 pairs of glasses(at the same time) a loupe and my unused Bergeon 6767 I now have a Navi on bracelet.
Just got the puzzle of sizing a 7 row bracelet now.
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Have you tried Banks Lyon in Lancaster? My local jewellers.
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No not tried them but I did the bracelet change myself in the end.
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Hello,

Here are 2 posts with all explaination how to deal with all Breitiling bracelets

2 usefull links and pages to study:
http://breitlingsource.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=32208

http://breitlingsource.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=34025

Also here are 2 other links
http://www.breitling.com/en/maintenance ... itling-912

In order to know how it works with Breitling service in the UK
http://www.breitling.com/multimedia/pdf/sav/sav-894.pdf
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