Horological Meandering

justpen
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I think a lot of these monster sizes are Pre - recession outcomes.

Hi Ir77,

Usually I make no comment on a watch brand unless I have had some personal experience with that brand or model.

I have a couple of Breitlings and think they are not a bad watch.

however, you are correct.... 49mm... Crazy and who would the market be for?

I have a very large wrist, and 42 -43 is really the maximum I can wear without looking like I have the Town Hall Clock on my wrist.

I think in the crazy Pre - recession times.... a lot of madness prevailed, and in a time when there seemed a bottomless pit of buyers for anything... many overoptimistic designs were put into production by equally overoptimistic makers.

Now we are seeing those production designs hit the market.

I wear a Breitling Seahawk Avenger in Titanium as my work watch.... I think that is what the model is called.

It is 43 mm and certainly my largest watch and the biggest I could wear.

I bought it because it has a water depth rating of 3,000 meters, and a 4.5mm thick crystal.

I figure it should survive sweat and the rain.... and the odd knock with a spanner might not break the glass.

I think Breitling have always been in a "neither your wrist or your elbow situation" with a lot of their watches.

Their AOPA pilot calculator watch is brilliant in principal... it offers almost all navigation facilities that a pilot would need to calculate a route and lodge a flight plan.

Problem is it, like this one, has printed text which is too small to read in practical use.

A young pilot of 17 years of age could possibly read it in a turbulent aircraft cockpit.... but at it's price, a 17 year old usually could not afford it. Likewise a more financially suited 45 year old might have the money, but not the good eyes to use it.

like I said... breitling always seem to between this and that with their designs.

Their Moon phase is another watch that attracts me, I think from memory it is their Montpellier model.... but when seen in the real, it is so thick, like a round brick.

As for this one, at 49mm.... it would not matter what it looked like or what functions it had, unless it was swinging from a nice gold chain with a fob... it would loose me for size as a wrist watch.

Kindest regards,

Jack