Fresh from the Showcase here at SwissWatchExpo. We've got some watches that are really great
looking in gold and steel today. And they're actually related, even though they're completely
different companies on my left, I've got the Tudor Black Bay Chronograph, and on the right I've
got the Navitimer, and the Navitimer is in a red gold. The Tudor Chronograph is in also a red gold,
but also steel. The Tudor on my left is related to the, to the Breitling on my right, because
the Breitling Navitimer on my right has the B01 manufacturer caliber movement from Breitling. So
does the Tudor on my left. That's an interesting combination. One of the other things that happens
within the Tudor lineup from Rolex, keep that in mind, imagine Breitling and Rolex collaborating.
The Superocean Heritage from Breitling uses the Tudor movement.
That is the three hand movement, not the chronograph movement. So even though Tudor
had an ETA chronograph movement for years, these are cousins, not necessarily brother and sister,
two different companies. Now a lot of people are taken by surprise by that because when they look
at the Tudor, that's on my left, the chronograph, they think, wow, that watch has $7,000. Why is
that? Well, keep in mind when you buy a Breitling, if you have a manufacturer caliber movement in any
of their series of watches, you're usually going to start out somewhere around 6,500 or $7,000 just
to get the movement. So the movements are very expensive from Breitling. They're not
kidding about that, but what's interesting is you would expect a steel and gold model
like this one from Tudor to be a whole lot more expensive with the Breitling Caliber B01 movement.
It's actually the MT series a watch. If you look at the, they say a manufacturer MT series caliber,
the designation for the Tudor. So when you see those numbers, they won't represent the same
as they do on the Navitimer. Why are we comparing these to other than the movement? Well,
if you look at the watches, they're kind of similar. They evoke sort of the same feeling.
It's that black and gold, red gold combination of look, the yellow gold combination of look.
It's not something that I normally would personally wear,
but these are two of the classiest watches I think, on the market. And then the two watches
that actually make me want to own either a steel and gold watch or a solid gold watch
until I saw the Navitimer like this one here, I was not interested in owning a gold watch at all.
The thing about this watch is, is that when you put it on your wrist, all of a sudden it amps
up the class, you start getting this feeling of, wow, this watch is really significant.
And even though it's a solid gold piece, maybe you think gee, solid gold is too flashy for me,
not in the Breitling, it really looks amazing. So I'm going to actually just put this on my wrist
because I want you to see, even in a casual setting like me, the watch looks phenomenal.
You cannot, in my opinion, buy a watch for the type of money that you're paying for the Breitling
and get the solid gold feature anywhere. That's as good as this. Now, one thing that you should
be clear of, I always say, now the timers are hydrophobic. They're scared to death of water.
They do not need to be submerged in water because if you do, you'll immediately drown them.
They're splashes is that you can wear them. You can wash your hands. You can do that type of thing
with them. But if you ever submerged these watches, there's going to be a problem. Now,
why is that? The bezel on the top of the Navitimer is very, very different from every other watch in
the marketplace. The crystal is actually a part of the bezel itself. So when you turn this bezel
to the left or to the right, it's a bi-directional bezel. When you turn
that in the slide rule calculates because that's what that is on the outside edge of the watch.
The gasket between the bezel and the watch itself is what's helping that, that doesn't move along.
So the watertight features of this after a while, you do need to replace those
gaskets. That's something you should always pay attention to on Navitimers.
We do that here at SwissWatchExpo. The fun thing about buying from us is that
the watch is fully serviced. It's completely oiled with all new synthetic lubricants,
completely authenticated inside now, but most importantly, all those gaskets and things are
checked and it is water resistant to three meters allegedly. And all of the gaskets are tested to
that depth, uh, before they leave the store. So perfect for everyday use, fine if it gets splashed
by water, fine if you're washing your hands, not okay to submerge. Now, I mentioned all of that
because if you have a Navitimer in your collection and you want to add something that is
water resistant, but maybe you want to keep that Breitling movement and go to a different model.
The Tudor is the choice. So you use that same movement from the Breitling Navitimer, rock solid
manufactured, caliber tested, and tested and tested.
There's really no other chronograph in the industry that's as good in my opinion,
as the Breitling 01. The Tudor has that movement. So you can get this watch and swim in it.
You can get this watch and play tennis in it. You can do all kinds of things. This watch is
absolutely durable. It's one of my things that I really rave about with Tudor, because
the quality of a Tudor watch beyond Rolex, is extreme. They put their watches through a lot
of different tests. Yeah. One of the tests is a cold test where they shock the crystal.
They shock the watch. They get it really, really cold and then shock it with heat and then shock
it with cold from heat. So they go both ways. They make sure that the crystal doesn't shatter crack
and make sure that the seals don't shrink and make sure that all of these things happen in extreme,
extreme environments you'll never put your watch through in a lifetime.
If the watch fails, it gets rejected immediately. They don't even go back and fix that watch.
They just can. It, it just disappears from the manufacturer. So they don't do
any sort of re-evaluation. Oh, well, let's put some new gasket in. Let's try it again.
No, they just junk the whole watch and they start again and they just move on down the line.
So Tudor has my heart in a lot of different ways because of the durability of it.
And I'm pretty rough on watches. And I like a watch that I can wear absolutely every day.
Now what's really cool about this particular Black Bay. And this is a Black Bay Chronograph.
The color combination that I think I said red gold earlier, this is actually a yellow gold.
It's like a bronzy color, but it mimics the red gold naturally when you hold them
together, I don't know if we can see that in the camera.
So you hold them side by side. They almost look identical
that's because the way that Tudor makes this gold it's brushed, it has a satin effect to it. But it
also has a little bit of copper in it. So even though they say this yellow gold in my eyes,
it doesn't really look like yellow gold. It looks more like a red gold.
It's got an antique feel to it. Gold takes on an antique feel that gets a patina over time and it
starts turning a bronzy, orangy red. And that's how this chronograph appears to me. And that's how
it appears to most people. So if you're a little bit confused by it, is that even as I, and yet
you'll notice that. Now it does have a solid gold bezel, like the Daytona, the Rolex Daytona,
it mimics the Daytona in a lot of ways, the pushers, the crown, it has dished sub dials.
And that's something that you don't see. It gives it that 3d effect that layering. It gives them a
lot of texture. Each one of the hour markers is raised and each one of our markers has a golden
ring around it to match the rest of the watch. It's not just painted on the dial there. Yeah,
applied. It still has the snowflake hand, like all the black bays, this watch also has the ability
to have what's called a bund strap. Meaning you can have a leather strap attached to the watch,
but then there's a leather little palette that goes right below the underneath of the watch.
It slightly outlines it. And then it sort of supports the head of the watch so that the
actual watch the metal doesn't touch your wrist. Now that it's two things that happened there. One,
obviously all Tudors are hyperallergenic. So in the past, in the old days, when the alloys,
the metals, a lot of people couldn't wear the watches because they would break out.
would get a rash because of the allergens to nickel and some other things that are in some
of the old alloys, that's not true of Tudor or Rolex anymore. But in order to evoke the
sort of the look of the past that bun strap would separate the metal from your wrist so that you
could wear a metal watch without breaking out. Now that wasn't necessarily all the reason. It was
a lot of fashion involved in that too, from the sixties and seventies, kind of evoked a cool look,
you'd see a lot of advertisement with people that rode motorcycles and stuff like that. Wearing
those bund straps, it was really popular through, a lot of the, rockstars and things like that, or
the bund strap too. So it was a fashion thing in addition to everything else, but you can get that
strap for this watch, not just the metal bracelet, this one happens to have the metal bracelets.
So I really loved this watch. I do want this as part of my collection. There are a lot of watches
that, that I see that I love and like, and I'd like to have every one of them, quite frankly,
but this one, I'm a hundred percent sure it's going to make it into my collection
one of these days, because the balance and the combination, the texture, the feel of
this watch is spot on for me that it's not too heavy, but it does have a good weight to it.
One of the thing that I do want to show you before we end this segment,
the bracelet, the bracelet has the capped end pieces. So the reason I'm holding this
bracelet like this is because I don't know if the camera can see it, but there's just
the slightest little edge here where you can see there's a plate attached to the side.
Now, when I turn it this way, you might be able to see that it has rivets along the outside
edge. Well, that's because that's how they used to make the bracelets in the old days.
This one's mimicking that now. So you get this really vintage feel from this watch. And that's
what I really like about it from the, the sort of the bronzy red gold to the bracelet style. Just
everything about this watch evokes class. To me, it is controversial. I recognize a lot of people
look at this watch and they're kind of scratch your head and don't understand it. That's fine.
I promise you when you put this, watch on your wrist, your whole entire
idea of what this watch has changes. That's how I got hooked on this watch as a matter of fact,
because when I very first saw it in pictures, I didn't think much of it.
I thought, wow, that's kind of boring. The very first time I put this watch on my wrist,
everything changed. And I immediately said, this has got to be part of my collection one
day. So between the Navitimer and the Tudor, these are two watches you should have in your
collection. They compliment each other. You can see that look at how closely they match.
You can wear one to a beautiful evening out and you can wear the other one straight to the
ocean and still have your water resistance. Even if you can't with your Navitimer. So
I suppose you could fly to the beach and this one, and then go to the beach and this one.
SwissWatchExpo. Call us, ring the bell, sign up, ask us questions. We'll be happy to help
you along. These are two great watches. We've got a lot of Tudors and Breitlings in our inventory.
We've got a lot of specialty Breitlings and Tudors in our inventory too. So give us a call. We'll
be happy to talk to you about these watches and answer any other questions you may have.