It has become law. Nobody in watchmaking has the courage to ignore the “vintage factor” because otherwise perhaps half of the watches would no longer be sold. Is creativity in watchmaking over? I do not think; it’s just that almost everyone, when it comes to the old, expensive, and anachronistic wristwatch often thinks back in time.

This is no longer a trend but a rule is good for brands like replica Breitling that have a long story to tell. President Georges Kern understood this from the moment he took office, and as soon as he is free from meetings I imagine him in the attic of the Grenchen factory looking for something to exhume.

Breitling heritage
I have always been an enthusiast with a long history full of inventions and patents of Breitling chronographs, twelve years ago I wrote THIS ARTICLE which collected them all, including those that all the brands also adopted and still use today, like the chronograph buttons. .

I believe that the laboratory founded in 1884 by Léon Beitling is the signature of the most fundamental solutions of this watch / instrument of which we Italians have always been among the greatest users and admirers.

The Premier collection
Eighty years ago around the 1940s, Breitling, now sure of its technical savoir-faire, at the beginning of the most beautiful period for vintage chronographs, launched Premier collection that paid more attention to the aesthetics of its replica watches uk.

Today the Maison pays homage to these timepieces with three lines: the Chronograph, the Duograph and the Datora.

Classic, all with Arabic numerals, spheres, and counters, two models in Breitling’s Premier Heritage collection are inspired by the Datora of eighty years ago. They are witnesses of a past that already at the time seemed linked to immortality, inside they are animated by mechanical movements at the latest and can be worn daily in complete tranquility given the water resistance of 100 meters.

Breitling Datora
The Datora, a chronograph with a complete calendar and moon phases, started with its name a real genre of chronographs that today are highly sought after by collectors.

The model that celebrates them in 2021, the Breitling B25 Datora 42, is available in two versions, both 42 mm in diameter with striking olive buttons and very curved sapphire glasses.

The first reference in steel offers a wonderful dial in copper tones. The indexes made up of Arabic numerals are mirror polished and the hands have a SuperLuminova core. Below 12 o’clock between the numerical index and the Breitling heritage logo there are the two characteristic windows of day of the week and month of the complete calendar.

The counters at 9 and 3 show the continuous seconds and 30 minutes respectively. In the lower one at 6 o’clock, a hand marks the date and an opening inside reveals the moon phase disc with the decorated Moon shining on a starry background.

The second Breitling Datora has a case of the same size but in red gold. The dial is silver and the Arabic numerals with the hour and minute hands are also in red gold.

They are driven by the Breitling B25 in-house self-winding caliber with unidirectional oscillating weight, column-wheel chronometry and chronometer certificate issued by the COSC, as well as both are secured to the wrist by a crocodile strap with a folding buckle.

Price
The Breitling Premier B25 Datora 42 in steel costs 11,350 Eur, while the Premier B25 Datora 42 in 18 k red gold is priced at 22,220 Eur. The watches are on pre-order on the Breitling website.

First Opinions
The Datora chronographs of the time are among the most sought after watches in the vintage world. Breitling did well to take them back: the Premier B25 Datora 42 represent both its top models of the moment and an important testimony to the illustrious past of a leading brand in the complication of measuring short intervals.

Maybe I will be a bit Taliban but I would have preferred that at least one of the two versions had a manual winding movement like the chronos of the time.