Fresh from the Showcase here at SwissWatchExpo. Today,
we are discussing a beautiful Breitling Bentley that has a case material and
dial that looks like it is straight out of the future. So let's check it out.
As some people may be familiar with, Breitling ended their fairly long partnership with car
manufacturer Bentley last year in 2021, but we still have some incredible and in this case,
completely unworn limited-edition Bentley watches available. So this is one of the last
special edition pieces that they released as part of this partnership and it is a truly special one.
This is a 45-millimeter carbon case edition of the Breitling Bentley. This one with a GMT
chronograph world timer movement is really impressive. I don't know if this is the last or
one of the last Breitling Bentleys they made, but it was definitely a pretty special piece to go out
on mainly the first thing that makes this watch so special is going to be the case material that this
is made out of. Bentley's for the most part with very few exceptions are pretty large watches.
Some of them could be outright massive, even bigger than this 45-millimeter case,
but the carbon material that they made this out of is incredibly lightweight. I mean,
even a titanium case feels like you're practically lifting weights compared to what this watch is.
Incredibly lightweight. It's gonna feel like you've got almost nothing on your wrist at all.
And as such, it has a super interesting finish on this that is really impossible to get out of
any metal. Of course, completely mad at there's not a single shiny surface on this watch really.
And even the grain of the side of it almost looks like it's carved out of
a piece of finished wood or something. If you get a closeup of the side angle of this case,
it's truly remarkable. And for this futuristic, a type of material is making a case out of carbon is
it does give sort of a warm old-fashioned feel to it which is probably the only thing
you can really say about this watch because this is definitely a very capable piece.
Carbon fiber dial as well, which I think matches this case perfectly.
Colorwise, I do love the dark color that does seem pretty consistent across and
you do get the really bright contrast with the markers here. So this is a very legible watch.
I mean still technically considered to be a watch, to be worn from the cockpit of a race car.
So that definitely makes sense. I didn't want to make anything too incredibly jumbled or hard to
read. Like you would find on say a Navitimer dial with a similar GMT movement. This does have the
Breitling B04 movement. So it's a chronograph with a GMT function. Those unfamiliar with it know this
has an incredible 70 hours of power reserve here. So a very modern watch with a very modern movement
inside of it. And of course, we do have the rotating bezel here because while this does have
the same B04 movement that has and plenty of other types of chronograph watches or GMT chronograph
watches that Breitling is making now, this bezel does technically make this a world timer.
And we do have all of the cities listed around the ring here that you would come to expect in a
world-timer watch. So again, a lot of information on this dial, but still incredibly easy to read.
So this is an incredibly impressive watch. I also love the pushers on the side here.
These are some very large sort of levered type of pushers here, and I love the action you get
off of them too. It's a very lightweight case and that's sort of I don't know how much that
has to do with how easy it is to sort of push in and release these chronograph pushers.
But this one is gonna be very easy to use on the fly as well. So this is an incredible chronograph
for a lot of different reasons, as it's a completely unworn model too. This is
gonna be really rare if not impossible to find this watch in this condition elsewhere, but you
also have an uncut strap here with basically enough room for at least a nine-inch wrist.
So no matter what size you are, I know Breitling is very popular with some people with some larger
wrists. Circumferences this is definitely one to consider because, at 45 millimeters, this is very
large for most people, but maybe not everyone, but you do get this full rubber strap here that says
Bentley on both sides of the strap here as well as Breitling on the inside. No exhibition caseback,
but it does show you the limited production number of this. This
was limited to just 250 pieces. So I don't think there's been many of these for sale
anywhere on the internet from the day they released it, but we've got an incredibly
unworn edition right here. So if you're a Breitling collector, if you're looking to get
your hands on as many rare Bentleys as you can, now that they're not making them anymore, this is
one that needs to be on your shortlist. Of course, if you are maybe not too deep into the Breitling
weeds when it comes to your collection, want maybe your first Bentley, your first Navitimer,
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