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Love these early Breitlings, back when Breitling was less about manly posing and mirror polish, and more about readability and the watch as a tool. This Breitling manual wind is an almost pure example of stunning industrial design. Clearly, Breitling thought of the user first in this dial, and everything is clean and really well proportioned and laid out. I like the enlarged and lumed 12 and 6, the lumed dot hour markers inside the minute track, the simple minute indicators just slightly enlarged at the hours, the hands of perfect length, and the layout of the subdials for the chronograph. Just a classic, killer layout. The spare black and white and the striking orange second hand for the chrono. Even the movement on this one, a Valjoux 236 is a beautiful machine. I even find the size of the subdials and the length of the subdial hands just perfect. Sometimes chrono hands are too short and you have to guess how much time has elasped. Not on this Breitling. Man, if Breitling still made watches like this instead of the cluttered dials, bejeweled bezels, and overly large cases with mirror polish, I might even consider looking at buying one. An added bonus for military watch types is that this one was once issued to the Royal Canadian Air Force. But that really doesn’t matter much to me. The price of $2,095 at FinerTimes is a little high for me, but if I were a watch designer, I would add this to my reference collection.
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