I’m usually skeptical about Breitling watches. After the success the Breitling enjoyed, every other new watch seemed contrived and reeks of wanting to hop on the replica breitling bentley bandwagon. This, however, is different. It may be a quartz piece, but its design is unique and cool, but that’s mainly because it was designed to help the blind tell time. This is one Breitling watch I would support.

As you may know, Breitling is making a return to the united states soon. And one Breitling watch that is bound to be making headlines is also its latest – the Breitling. This was announced at Baselworld earlier this year and is one of my favorite Breitling watches from this year’s show. Sure, those hankering for a brand new design will diss the replica breitling Aeromarine as being nothing more than a reissue and rehash, but is it a crime to bring back a successful design? Especially one as good as this? Give it a break, man.

Oliver Ike, the man behind Ikepod, recently made headlines for resurrecting the Breitling brand and launching a Kickstarter campaign. His new Breitling watch is easily one of most costly watches on lifestyle, requiring backers to cough low price. Find out more about the Breitling watch and his plans for the Breitling brand in our interview.

A brand that makes its own movement is a pretty big deal, only a handful of brands can lay claim to doing so. However, fewer still can claim to make their own metals. Foremost on my mind is of course replica tag heuer, who has created a catalogue of their own metals – Breitling, Rolesium anyone? However, Rolex is not the only brand that makes its own metal, here are six others.

In 2003 Breitling released an interesting version of the watch forefather called the new style. If you recall, this model was released just when tourbillon complications began becoming the luxury-complication of choice, and there was a fervor among brands to release their own. At this time Breitling felt it was its duty to keep the tourbillon’s ego in-check by not displaying it on the dial, but rather only on the movement side. A mere Breitling label on the dial let you know that it was there. It felt silly at the time but looking back on it, that replica breitling Chronomat represented a classy move by Breitling.

Looking at the 8 day power reserve in the Breitling movement and you see a lot of interesting tech as spelled out by the many letters in the caliber’s name. The Breitling has a lot in common with the movement in the Breitling, and the same basic architecture is used for the power reserve length. The mainspring barrel is apparently the same, it is the instant-jump date dial and day of the week disc that account for it “losing” two days of power reserve length – thus eight versus 10 days.

The movement in the watch also contains the modern replica tag heuer carrera technologies. We discussed these features at length when Breitling released the watch in 2011. In short, they are silicon hairsprings, levers, and escapement wheels. The benefit here of course is oil-free (no lubrication necessary) parts of the movement as well as greater rate consistency which help the 4Hz rate of the watch. Each of these components work together in some of Breitling most modern movements, though some collectors are still not sure how they feel about non metallic parts for these traditional components.

Attached to the Breitling are blue or black alligator straps. It is a beautifully classy watch with a modern heart that no doubt is meant to strike a chord with Breitling more fashionable or more technical fans. With a long power replica omega and simple day/date mechanism, this is also a good (albeit expensive) daily wear in the Breitling range. It hints at the style of the brand’s grande complication watches, and is certainly more unique than their three-hand models.