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Old 16 April 2010, 10:53 PM   #1
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New grail....

As you guys already know, I am nuts about Breguets... Yes, yes, I know they belong to Swatch group, but if one does some elementary reading, s/he will learn that it means nothing. None of the components/designs are fiddled with - plus the same group is responsible for the likes of Blancpain and Glashutte... Get to the bad part.

I always liked the Breguet Type XXI:



Simple chrono - bun much nicer that it's competitors (no names named, but rhymes with Claytona ) since:

1) it has A DATE
2) the chrono is a Flyback, not just a regular start-stop
3) the chrono minute hand sweeps, and does not jump like some cheap quartz watch.


Well - Breguet outdid themselves with this... Introducing the Type XXII:



Would love to see this one in action, as it beats at amazing 72,200 vph - and it measures elapsed time down to 1/20th of a second! Simply amazing....

Now gotta go make some money
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Old 17 April 2010, 07:35 AM   #2
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Greg, that Breguet Type XXII is sweet ...... but a hefty price tag!
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Old 17 April 2010, 07:44 AM   #3
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So Greg, it's now a whole day later.

Did you make enough money today and is it now on your wrist?
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Old 17 April 2010, 07:51 AM   #4
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So Greg, it's now a whole day later.

Did you make enough money today and is it now on your wrist?
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Old 17 April 2010, 10:01 AM   #5
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I'm a big Breguet fan myself. Just a little (WAY OUT) of my price range.
I have to agree, that is a beautiful watch.
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Old 17 April 2010, 10:03 AM   #6
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So Greg, it's now a whole day later.

Did you make enough money today and is it now on your wrist?
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Old 17 April 2010, 10:28 AM   #7
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So Greg, it's now a whole day later.

Did you make enough money today and is it now on your wrist?
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Old 17 April 2010, 12:17 PM   #8
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There's nothing wrong with any of the Swatch brands, in my opinion.
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Old 17 April 2010, 12:39 PM   #9
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Old 17 April 2010, 11:58 PM   #10
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I'd buy that for 15K. The second hand circles the dial twice in a minute. Awesome.
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That is beautiful. Damn you Greg, I'm just getting used to being addicted to Rolex. Now I have to make room for Breguet . Absolutely beautiful . I just checked out their website. Totally amazing.
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Old 18 April 2010, 01:37 AM   #12
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That is beautiful. Damn you Greg, I'm just getting used to being addicted to Rolex. Now I have to make room for Breguet . Absolutely beautiful . I just checked out their website. Totally amazing.
Greg is one of the finest evil influences on this board.
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Old 18 April 2010, 01:43 AM   #13
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Greg is one of the finest evil influences on this board.
I'm learning that. Now my wife wants a headboard too
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Old 18 April 2010, 04:20 AM   #14
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She ripping through those paper walls again ?
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Old 19 April 2010, 01:54 AM   #15
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I'm learning that. Now my wife wants a headboard too
after a while, I figured out how to securely fasten the headboard to the wall... Problem solved ;)
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Old 19 April 2010, 01:57 AM   #16
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after a while, I figured out how to securely fasten the headboard to the wall... Problem solved ;)
Sure you don't mean you ran out of the blue pills?
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Old 19 April 2010, 02:04 AM   #17
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after a while, I figured out how to securely fasten the headboard to the wall... Problem solved ;)
Thinking outside of the box as always. Nice I can do that
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Old 18 April 2010, 12:46 AM   #18
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Very nice but a bit out of my price range.
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No one can ever accuse you of poor taste (well not in watches at least).
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Old 19 April 2010, 01:59 AM   #20
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Besides - I'm not bad influence - I'm a proponent of NEVER paying full retail for anything, no matter the piece. It isn't worth it. If you buy my book, you will learn how to have immediate equity in your watch collection, and never be the guy peeling the plastic off the watch (unless you bought it at a price of a used watch to begin with). And David, the book has lots of pictures, so it should be OK for you as well.
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Old 19 April 2010, 02:01 AM   #21
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Besides - I'm not bad influence - I'm a proponent of NEVER paying full retail for anything, no matter the piece. It isn't worth it. If you buy my book, you will learn how to have immediate equity in your watch collection, and never be the guy peeling the plastic off the watch (unless you bought it at a price of a used watch to begin with). And David, the book has lots of pictures, so it should be OK for you as well.

Sounds like Joan Rivers slogan: If I lie, may I forever pay retail.
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Old 19 April 2010, 04:35 PM   #22
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Besides - I'm not bad influence - I'm a proponent of NEVER paying full retail for anything, no matter the piece. It isn't worth it. If you buy my book, you will learn how to have immediate equity in your watch collection, and never be the guy peeling the plastic off the watch (unless you bought it at a price of a used watch to begin with). And David, the book has lots of pictures, so it should be OK for you as well.
Greg, I'm intersted in you book. How much you selling for?
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Old 19 April 2010, 10:23 PM   #23
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Nice looking watch and hulluva technological marvel (10 hertz and a silicium escapement) but a couple of things that would bug me about this watch are:

2. The chronograph doesn't have a 12 hour counter. From what i have read the counter at 6 is not a 12 hours counter but a second time zone and the counter at 3 has been added to allow am/pm distinction for the time zones, which seems to be a double up.
The counter at 6 is a 12 hour counter - not sure where that info came from, my friend! The one at '3' is an am/pm 24 hour, just like in the XXI

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Old 20 April 2010, 09:15 AM   #24
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The counter at 6 is a 12 hour counter - not sure where that info came from, my friend! The one at '3' is an am/pm 24 hour, just like in the XXI
I got it straight from the Breguet site, where it says that the counter at 6 o'clock is the second time zone indicator. Here is the link

http://www.breguet.com/eng/3880ST-H2-3XV2
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Nice looking watch and hulluva technological marvel (10 hertz and a silicium escapement) but a couple of things that would bug me about this watch are:

1. the chrono second only covers 30 secs in one rotation, it can get confusing very quickly for simpeltons like me as to how long has passed. Granted the little counter at 12 displays whether we are in the first or the second half of the minute, it is still a pain to read unlike a traditional chrono.
2. The chronograph doesn't have a 12 hour counter. From what i have read the counter at 6 is not a 12 hours counter but a second time zone and the counter at 3 has been added to allow am/pm distinction for the time zones, which seems to be a double up.
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Old 19 April 2010, 10:49 PM   #27
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Now that's just amazing. I also want to know more about/see more of the movement.

Makes the Daytona, B01....pretty much any other sport chrono look....well.....lets be polite and just say significantly inferior.

Schhhwing!

And for $18,000 it's about 5x cheaper than i thought it'd be too.
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Old 19 April 2010, 10:56 PM   #28
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Blue,

I don't think it will retail quite that high... In the natural progression of things, the XX was about $7k, XXI was $9k, I doubt this one will be double. But I guess we shall see.

As far as this watch as a chrono, sorry to all the Daytona owners, but even the XXI (IMO, of course), was far superior, even if you don't take the date function into consideration. I have never seen a chronograph displayed in such a fashion, with a SWEEPING minute hand. Daytona in that sense has some growin' up to do.
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Old 19 April 2010, 11:11 PM   #29
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Hey Greg,

I saw the $18K tag on a couple of other net sources/new model reports. It would be great if this was indeed lower and the natural progression you mention does make it sound like it should be.

The Daytona doesn't do anything that a 1950's 321 Speedy doesn't apart from wind itself! It would be nice if Rolex produced a model with split-seconds, date, flyback and maybe another trick or two.
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my dad has been trying to get me into breguet for a while now, I love their whole lineup but when i was ready to buy an XXI a JLC master compressor chrono got in the way (absolutelly love it and crave JLC's the same as Rolex) next purchases where going to be a DJII and a DSSD, but I guess now those have to be put on hold and wait (how much do i have to wait for the XII) for the XXII. to think i almost bought a hublot with a foudroyante complication because i wanted a very accurate chrono jejejejej.
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