Category: Breitling

While many watches are aimed at people with active lifestyles, they often feature bulky stainless steel cases and fragile mechanical movements. Think “sports watch,” which probably fits both criteria. But with such a clear purpose, why not use lightweight materials, and couldn’t a sturdy quartz movement handle vibrations and shocks better than a mechanical one?
This was the driving concept behind the development of the Endurance Pro, a timepiece designed in line with its intended use. Aimed squarely at active watch enthusiasts, Breitling has even launched the “Breitling Endurance Pro Strava Challenge,” which encourages the wearer to last 500 minutes in swimming, running, cycling, hiking, or any sport that promotes sweating and a higher heart rate.  
The Endurance Professional is the spiritual successor to the Breitling Sprint, a chronograph produced in the 1970s with a resin case and a pulsometer scale. Theoretically, the pulsometer scale helps athletes measure their own heart rate. The modern Endurance Pro continues this feature with a case made of unconventional materials, and the Endurance Pro is made of Breitlight, a material introduced in 2016. It’s 3.3 times heavier than titanium and 5.8 times heavier than stainless steel, which makes it ideal for sports applications, but it’s also interesting from a materials science standpoint. It’s hypoallergenic, lightweight, and Breitling reports that it’s “warmer to the touch than metal.”
The “20-year rule” states that specific styles and trends in fashion operate on a twenty-year cycle: 20 years pass and what’s old becomes cool again. The aesthetics of the Endurance Pro watch fit the requirements of the Boy Meets World shoot, which is why I was particularly interested in it. For many collectors, the Endurance Pro will seem quite familiar. It exudes the “classic” vibe of a Breitling from the 90s. The steady rise of athleisure in the fashion world over the past few years has set the stage for the release of such a watch, but I’m sure it will surprise many collectors because it harkens back to a more recent era than many of Breitling’s replica watches released last years, such as the Breitling SuperOcean Heritage ’57 Capsule Collection or the Top Time Limited Edition.
Not everyone wants to abuse the Luminox or G-Shock while biking or hiking – some want to make it even fancier when they’re out and about, and this is the watch for just such an occasion. You can get some serious tradition in this well-equipped watch to stand up to a proper whipping. Appreciating replica watches is largely a sedentary hobby – so any watch that requires people to engage in 500 minutes of strenuous activity is a good thing. Essentially, Endurance Pro is a fun watch, and we could always use more of them.

Breitling is enlarging more colors for the pilot’s replica watches named Aerospace Evo. It originates from the Professional collection and is actually a novel iteration of the timepiece that was formerly recognized as Aerospace chronograph. The latest pilot’s instrument features superior titanium housing, a beveled crystal and a redesigned facade of its analog-digital face. Numbers of traits are operated with a sole crown and they are enabled with the use of a thermo-compensated quartz movement. The newcomer of Breitling can be matched up with attachments in three different materials, and the price of the watch has been decided by this choice. There is one even more precious version of Aerospace Evo that contains a co-pilot’s module merged with the metal bracelet.
Innovative Breitling replica Aerospace Evo was initially released in 1985, which tells a great deal about the victory of the product. Even if there are certainly a few differences among all of the subsequent iterations, besides slight tweaking of functions tied with the diverse movements that have been made use of in the models, the watch has stayed greatly much the same in its basic functions. Regularly, this dedicates the use of titanium cases with solid backs, the identifiable analog-digital face and its emphasized aviation origin. Unluckily, the longevity of the timepiece the same suggests that the fake watch is not that exclusive or with groundbreaking features. At the same time, it still signifies the tested successful formula.
This newest pilot’s instrument substitutes the former named replica Breitling Aerospace Chronograph, but keeps virtually the same set of functions. There are only differences are the slight changes in the design of the dial; only just 1 mm wider face for the newcomer, a bit differently-styled hands and numerals and the existence of a beveled crystal. The caliber is not only ten times more precise than a normal quartz model, but also more resistant to temperature shifts, like the name obviously proposes.
Referring to the wide characteristics which are particularly fit for aviators, 1/100th of a second chronograph, a countdown timer, an alarm, a perpetual day and date calendar, an additional 12.24 hour LCD digital display, a backlight system have been included in this watch, which is matched with night vision goggles, an end-of-life indicator, besides a perceptible time signal. Furthermore, each of the functions is activated by a sole crown which is twisted, pushed down or pulled up so as to trigger the proper feature.

When there comes to a new Breitling, I’ve guessed out what you will ask about, the size right? At 46mm, some might find this watch rather impressive. However, there is no doubt that we need to remember where the Chronoliner comes from to make sense of this. It is the successor to the vintage and 7650 Co-Pilot, which measured well above 40mm some 50+ years ago, as they were first and foremost intended as tool replica watches for pilots. And in a cockpit, a larger diameter often has access to an increased legibility. This replica Breitling was always careful to offer short lugs in order to avoid the watches feeling like a pizza on the wrist (although some 47mm vintage Breitlings are actually nicknamed the “Pizza,” but this is a story for another time). 
The design cues of the vintage AVI/Co-Pilot chronographs are there on this new model, from the luminous markers in the minute sub-register to the very specific handset. The rotating bezel constitutes the one major difference, not only because it is made of blue ceramic, which comes with a better resistance to scratches, but also because it shows 24 hours for setting another timezone rather than the original 12 hours for tracking an event. As such, this already permits you to track two separate timezones, the local one on the main handset, and the “home” one on this additional hand. The bezel then ends up offering a third timezone, say the time of your next remote destination if you are a fearless pilot, real or imaginary.
The name of this new fake Breitling tells you all the rest you need to know: B04 stand for the in-house caliber with the GMT complication, while the Boutique Edition both explains where you can find this Chronoliner and why it is in deep blue. Replica Breitling calls this “Aurora blue” in a nice nod to the aviation world, and this color is generally used in special releases of the classics, such as the Navitimer, the Cosmonaute, and the Chronomat. While the date window on the Chronoliner will surely have its fair share of detractors, one cannot fail to recognize its neat integration into the dial, as it comes in a matching blue. And again, in terms of convenience, a date makes total sense, especially when you know that it is connected to the local time as to avoid any misunderstanding.
The automatic B04 movement is a variation of the caliber B01, which was released in 2009 after years of development and is still made to this day by Breitling (you recently heard that Tudor chose a modified version of it for the Black Bay Chronograph too). Like the B01, the B04 shows the column-wheel mechanism, which purists prefer to simpler cam-operated chronographs, and it provides a respectable 70-hour power reserve. Like the entire Breitling production since 1999, the Chronoliner is chronometer-certified by the COSC, so accuracy is not a concern here.
The Breitling Chronoliner B04 Boutique Edition will be available only in the 50 or so Breitling boutiques across the world, and it is limited to 100 pieces. It comes on the blue rubber strap pictured, with a 24mm lug width that balances the 46mm diameter. The caseback is described as sporting a “vintage-look pin-up” but no renderings were provided and we’re yet to see one of these in the metal.