Horological Meandering

Here is a Breitling Super Ocean I saw today. The game was to see the flaws and the qualties of this Watch. First the pics, then the comments. Flaws first: - The hands, whiich are of course not correct, and awfuk, to say the least. - The bezel insert, whic...  

As we rarely see one... ;) Best, Fred, and thanks for giving your opinion! Nicolas.

Rolex because I'm not a specialist and wouldn't want to pay top dollar for a Frankenvintage, but I'd probably buy the Breitling just because it looks nice. In this case, I'd hope to find it at a flea market for short money. I'd smile whenever it would be ... 

it is one of the most sought after Vintage Breitling, and quite difficult to find... Hence my answer... Best, Nicolas.

Thanks for the lesson my friend. These are indeed extremely hard to find. I may very we'll make my first acquisition into Breitling very shortly with a more common vintage Navitimer 806. But I will certainly keep an open eye for the elusive Super Ocean. D... 

We sometimes fall on watches we are running after for a long time, and they oftn come with some imperfections. The first thing is to notice thse imperfections, the second thing is to know the limits of the acceptable. Which is not easy... Best, Nicolas

It's hard to tell from the pictures, but have the underside of the lugs had work done to them. Looks like they've been soldered?

As for the lugs, I wondered the same thing, but couldn't tell if there were soldered or just dirty... Best, my friend. Nicolas

when it comes to a vintage watch nothing will be perfect, but its the level of acceptable imperfections which is important. a difficult to find watch such as this would perhaps allow more imperfections than a common watch, but not this many. i would have ... 

Which is interesting to discuss, through, for example, this Watch. Thanks for your input, my friend. Nicolas

as said before, the dial is truly exceptional on this piece - but case overpolished, twin plane gone, crown wrong, all this I could live with for that dial; the incorrectly refinished insert could be corrected - but the hands are impossible to replace, to...