Hello everyone today, we're gonna be talking about the Breitling Navitimer 1,
not to be confused with the Navitimer 01 but we'll get in all the specifics in just a moment.
Welcome back. Like I said today, our topic of discussion is gonna be the Breitling Navitimer
1. Now this is a current production model, so you can find all the details about it directly on the
Breitling website. But of course, if you come to SwissWatchExpo, you can get it at a discount. Now,
this is a mid-size version as Breitling calls it a mid-size version of the Navitimer,
both of these watches, and you can also get it with a blue dial. They come in a 41 millimeter
size. Now the traditional or standard Navitimer, slightly larger than that.
I personally find mid-size to be appropriate within the Navitimer collection, but
from watches in general, I do find mid-size watches to be smaller and at a 41 millimeter
size. I don't know if I would fully commit to the idea that this is a mid-size watch,
but again, it's all relatively speaking and relative to the full size Navitimer.
This watch does come in mid-size. Now I said we were gonna discuss the differences between the
Navitimer 1 and the Navitimer 01. And the biggest difference is gonna be in the movement. Now,
of course, if you're familiar with like the iconic traditional Navitimer you'll know that it comes
with a chronograph movement, right? A stop stop, start, function, the reset. And it's gonna have
sub dials that are located on the, on the dial now Breitling for their Navitimer 01. They actually
make that movement in-house it is an entirely Breitling main movement. It's something they're
very proud of. And it's actually become one of a handful of in-house movements that Breitling
produces. Now, this movement is actually based on an ETA. It's an ETA based movement, and of
course it's slightly different, right? Obviously there's no chronograph registers or sub dial.
This watch is gonna be time and date only. You'll notice that there is a date aperture
down at the six o'clock position. Now this movement itself does beat at 28,800.
So it's a very quickly operating movement, but if you actually slow it down, like if you,
you take a freeze frame and just kind of do slow motion and or if you look really closely,
you'll notice that it moves very efficiently. It's not a completely like smooth sweep, but you will
notice that there are actually gonna be eight independent little, I don't wanna say ticks but
movements in between each second. So if you look closely, you can actually measure things down to
a fraction of a second. So it's a very accurate movement machine built by Breitling. Of course,
they do adjust the ETA movement and add, they'll replace some parts with some premium, you know
upgrades to the movement, and then they actually take the movement and they certify it by COSC.
So this is gonna be a COSC certified movement. And of course with that, you're gonna have those time
keeping accuracy, the minus four plus six, of course, this watch is an automatic movement, so
it's gonna have an automatic rotor inside it. But the way that this one works is really cool. It's
just, it's a really smooth feel. It's something that a lot of times you'll hold a watch and you're
not supposed to wind it by shaking it. But if you kind of like swivel the watch around, you can feel
that rotor moving, not really in this one, I mean, you can tell it's in there, but you don't feel
the weight kind of sloshing around, pulling your hand with it. And when you put it up to your ear,
you can very faintly hear a sound. But for the most part, this is a very, very silent movement.
Now, of course, one more thing about that. Automatic rotor. It is bidirectionally
winding. So a lot of watches though, the rotor has to spin in a certain direction for it to
increase the power reserve for this watch, no matter which way that rotor is pivoting, it's
gonna be adding power to, to the main spring. And of course, that gonna make for a more accurate,
more efficient rather automatic module, which of course wins to having longer power reserves not
having a wind and set your watch as often now to go back to the outside of the watch, of course,
because it's part of the Navitimer. You do have access to the Navitimer bracelet. You can get them
on straps with different buckle styles, but the biggest difference is gonna be in the dial itself.
You know, when we're talking about looks and appearance,
again, we already discussed that it is not a chronograph. So the first thing you'll notice
is that this dial looks just a lot cleaner. It's not as busy as the Navitimer. Oh one the removal
of those sub dials for the chronograph function. Really, it just kind of opened the dial up.
Now, of course, you still have the, the iconic slide rule bezel. So you're still gonna get plenty
of functionality of the watch if you want to use it as a tool watch. But when you look down here,
you don't have to try to sort out what you're looking at on your wrist. It's a phenomenal piece.
You can get it again. This is gonna be the silver dial. It comes in a black dial and of course,
the iconic blue dial that we all know and love from the Breitling Navitimer collection.
And we've got a couple of these in stock here at SwissWatchExpo. So if the full size is something
that's just a little bit too much of a statement piece, but you like the look and feel of the
Navitimer, this midsize Navitimer, one is the way to go, come check it out at SwissWatchExpo.com.