Welcome back to Fresh from the Showcase. Today, we're going to be discussing
the Breitling Montbrillant, sometimes pronounced Montbrillant,
it's going to be the 1461. It's a complicated movement, pun intended.
All right. So like I said, we're today, we're going to be talking about the
Breitling Montbrillant. This is a Navitimer, it's a 42 millimeter watch. It actually comes
in at 41.5 millimeters, but it's classified as a 42 millimeter watch. So it's right there in
that sweet spot that we know and love from Breitling Navitimer collection. It is going
to be a watch that you find in stainless steel. And it also, it does boast a 42 hour
power reserve. So you don't have to worry about winding the watch every day. And it does have
an automatic movement that can help perpetuate that. Now, a couple of things about this watch,
I've got a couple of examples here, one with the black dial and one with the silver dial.
I have seen it in that traditional blue dial that we've seen before on the Breitling Navitimer. One
of the really cool things about this watch. They tried to incorporate some of the history
of Breitling you'll notice that it has that iconic design on the bezel and the
dial that we've seen before on the Navitimer. They did use it on this Montbrillant as well,
but there's a little bit more to the history than just the functionality of that bezel and all of,
of course, the relevance that it has in the history of aviation and with pilots,
but the term or name Montbrillant actually has to do with the history of Breitling as well.
So Leon Breitling, you know, the original founder of Breitling... He had his original workshop,
you know, that was located in Europe, but eventually he saw an opportunity
to mass produce these chronographs and he opened up a factory and there was a little road behind
the factory that was Montbrillant. That was the name of the road. Of course it was probably
pronounced a little bit differently. There were a couple of extra words involved as well,
But that is the, the key phrase that has stuck with Breitling over the centuries now. And it is
now they've worked it into this particular watch. So you'll notice though, when, when we publish
this and when you see it on the listings and on the internet that it's not usually just called the
Montbrillant, it's a Navitimer Montbrillant 1461. And that 1461 has to do with the type of movement
that is inside the watch. And it's got a lot of complications. It is a complicated movement for a
complicated watch, but all of the functions that you'll find within this are extremely relevant
and something that any person would use on a day-to-day basis. So let's go through some of the,
some of the features that you'll find on this particular watch. It does have the ability to read
the seconds and the minutes, and the hours like we would expect on pretty much any watch ever.
But it also has the ability to tell you the day of the week, the date of the month, the month of
the year, as well as the moon phase. Now you get all of that and a chronograph and the chronograph
not only has, you know, your stop start with and reset for your seconds. It counts the minutes and
the hours, but you'll notice that they have a 30 minute timer as well as a 12 hour timer. So
this has a lot of functionality you can really use the watch just to tell you what time of the year
it is. If you've kinda gotten lost. I know with COVID and all that we, the days have turned into
weeks to months to years now. So maybe sometime you can just look at your watch and it'll kind
of bring you back to reality and let you know where we are on this journey through life. Now,
there are a couple of other things I feel like are pretty important about this watch.
One of which is going to be the fact that it does have a water resistant rating. So it is a water
resistant trading of 30 meters, which you'll also see published as three bar or three ATM,
which is actually considered atmospheres. And all three of those measurements are the same,
but that does not mean that you can swim with this watch about a hundred feet down into the water.
This is actually going to be used as a more of a splash resistant rating, where if you were washing
your hands and got a little bit of water on your watch, it would be okay. If you were caught out
in the rain and you know, needed to get indoors or under shelter, you would want to take care of
your phone first, if it was not waterproof, it will be able to withstand some wet rain drops.
You don't have to worry about shielding it and covering it. It'll be okay, but you would not. I
would not recommend, Breitling would not recommend swimming in the watch or showering and bathing
definitely do not go scuba diving in this watch again, though it does have some water resistance.
So if you're around a little bit of water, you don't need to get paranoid and take your watch off
and hide it. Now I've talked a little bit about the 1461. I talked about how it's a complicated
movement, but let's talk about that, that, that time or that number, the 1461, where does that
come from? You know, why did they choose 1461? And the reason is it's not a perpetual calendar,
meaning that it can go for, you know, a hundred years without being reset. This is actually
going to last for 1,461 days. And if you do the math, that's three years of 365 days a year.
Plus the leap year having another 366 days. And then if you add all of those days together,
you get 1,461 days. So this is a watch that you would only have to reset or have a watchmaker
reset to have it adjusted properly once every leap year. So you would do that on February 29th,
whenever it came up. So come check these out at Swiss watch expo. Both of these watches do come
with the box. We do have one in black as well as silver. I would imagine that one day we'll come
across one in the blue as well, but know that all three are available. Come check them out
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