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I am curious about which Models have this dial (see pictures attached). The better one was on Ebay UK 2-3 Years ago (from Slovenia) and the one in need to restoration was sold in Hungary (Sadly not to me even though I was dealing with the seller for three month but he was too lazy to post...long story). Anyway I would be interested in one of thoese, I think the dial is beautiful. It might be made for the eastern European market. But I am not sure.

The hungarian one was made out to be from 1942, whilst the one from slovenia was supposedly from 38. No idea if that is true. I don't have any reference numbers.

Let me know what you know

Chris

Hi Chris,

Be interesting to read what the connoisseur say about this one here.

In both cases, the thing that got my attention is the lug design. Hard to find many examples of a men’s chrono with either a plate lug or tear drop design in the Breitling range. As the catalogue raisonné for Breitling is patchy at best, it’s very difficult to be assured. Many other designs exist of course, but not so much of these types that I can find. Not sure if that helps dating the watches either, as integrated swept lugs were a feature of many Breitling designs in the 30’s (as they are now), but plate lugs also feature after WW2 more than before, or so it would seem.

Interesting Telemetre scale though.

Jim

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Jim

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nice dials - and these "spiral" dials in diffent configurations were options on all 1940s models.

would have like to see more/better pics of both watches shown, including casebacks;
is there a bridge engraving on watch 1 ?

here's the dial option page from the 1946 catalog:

@ p51 you are right, the lugs are interesting. I have another late 30's/early 40's Breitling with the same plate lug design, so it could be genuine (you can check my other thread, but I need to figure out a way to add larger pictures first).
The teardrop lug one was made out to be from 38, so again you ould be right.

Unfortunatelly I do not have pictures from the casebacks, this is all I have.

@Fred I know this dial option page...the dial design..if it is genuine...must have been dropped by then.

how was it "made out to be from 38", please ?

also what do you mean "dropped by then", again, the spiral dials were options on all models at least until the 46 catalog ?

happy to answer questions, but I'd need to understand what you are asking ?

Hi Fred.

I meant to say that the seller of the better one with the teardrop lugs claimed it was built in 38.

Regarding the dial design: I didn't mean to say that the Spiral design was dropped from the product range by 46, but that the dial pictured above seemed not to have been produced anymore by 46.

Does that make sense?

well, would be very hesitant to quote a production date somebody "claimed" - nothing here points to a specific production year. asking again, is that an engraving on the bridge ?

no reason also to believe that dial was not in production in 1946 ?

Would also like to know what evidence led to a 1938 claim. To the best of my knowledge it is simply not possible to date models from this era to a specific year.

No evidence other than what the seller on ebay said. In other words it was advertised as a 1938 Breilting. That is all.

So nobody has ever seen this dial before???