Breitling Navitimer Chronometre

Jaquet Droz’s New Bird Repeater Geneva
The Jaquet Droz brand has made a name for itself by combining fine watchmaking and elaborate mechanical inventions. Now Jaquet Droz has turned its attentions to the capital city of watchmaking. With the new Bird Repeater Geneva, the brand has adapted its automaton-bearing minute repeater to include some of Geneva’s landmarks. On the Bird Repeater Geneva’s dial, timekeeping takes a backseat to grand effects. Most prominent on the dial are the bird automata, which are hand-painted and hand-crafted in gold. There are two fully grown goldfinches: the one on the left leans forward to feed its young, while the one on the right moves its head and extends and retracts its wings. In the gold nest between the birds, two hatchlings sit on either side of an egg. The egg cracks open, revealing another baby bird inside.?Meanwhile, the painted gold dial behind the birds displays recognizable symbols of Geneva. The nest sits on ?le Rousseau, an island in Lake Geneva. On the right of the di

Caseback logo button falls out of Flagship
HI - I was wondering why the caseback logo button has fallen out of my brandnew flagship. The curious thing is that it will not stay in if I press it in. Are they sealed in by the factory using some clever mechanism like air pressure or something ? The fact that it has popped out - does that indicate something ? Thanks

Happy, happy, happy!
I'll let the pics do most of the talking - a late 50's 19AS:obligatory wrist shots:

Y E S!! Wtf El#26
I'm gonna have WTF EL#26, soon!!,gotta find the Muttley blue strap now.Tom - Can ya hook me up with that too, (blue deployment clasp) one whole package deal?Thanks - LimeNine9r

Factoid of the Day 7-22-08
From the national clock and watch collectors' association website:An Elgin advertisement in 1928 claimed that there were more than 14,418 retail jewelers in the United States and all but 12 carried Elgin watches.