Creed asked me to get these two watches out, and I can't help but notice as I bring them
over - they're really really light for how big they are.
They absolutely are! Breitling introduced this particular case - it's called the Breitlight
case. Nobody knows exactly what's in it. Breitling won't actually disclose what the actual material
is. It doesn't have a cold feel, if you notice them.
It's a cold morning here in Atlanta, by the way. And its about 68 degrees in here. Normally,
if you touch something like glass or metal, it would feel cold. And in the summertime,
if you touch metal or glass it feels warm. This material never has a really cold feeling,
and it never has a really warm feeling.
And when I hold it, it really feels lighter than titanium!
It is. It's a lot lighter than titanium, as a matter of fact. And a lot of people confuse
this with being plastic. [They say] It looks like plastic, or it looks like G-Shock. You
know, it doesn't have the rich feel of what something that's expensive should be heavy.
That's the way that most watches have gone now.
If it doesn't have a heavy feel, then it must not be worth something. In days past, the
more expensive things were, the lighter they were. It actually takes a lot more technology
to create lighter watches.
So, for this Breitlight material, it's sort of a composite of Epoxy and Carbon Fiber.
And we would know that because this material was also used in the fuselage of Boeing aircrafts
- and we know what a Boeing aircraft fuselage is made out of.
Also, this is the same material used by Lamborghini to make their fenders and rear parts their
cars. So we know what the material is to a certain degree, we just dont know what the
chemical make up is exactly.
One more thing is that when you look at the watch, it doesn't have a Carbon Fiber look.
It has more of a flecked look - it's very random. Each one is completely different than
the other. And one of the things that when I used to sell these brand new, when I worked
for an authorized dealer - one of the things that I noticed about this watch early on,
is
how
it sure
is shiny, when
it's brand new.