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Breitling Datora 592: Funky Chronograph

Breitling Datora 592: Funky Chronograph

Today I’m wearing another watch I’ve previously written about here. I bought this Breitling Datora as a bit of a “fixer-upper” back in 2014 and promptly sent it out to be serviced. It’s now a fairly regular “wearer” in my watch box.

The Breitling Datora has a really retro feel with the lug-less tonneau case

When I purchased this Datora it was in somewhat rough shape. The seconds hand was…

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1970 Breitling Datora 592: My Fixer-Upper

1970 Breitling Datora 592: My Fixer-Upper

  This is a web site about grails: Watches people spend their lives looking for. Approximately zero people will spend their lives looking for a beat up, common, 1970’s Breitling like this Datora 592. But I bought it, and I thought it might be interesting to my readers to know why.

This Breitling 592 is probably not anyone’s grail…

  Let’s get some background out of the way: Breitling chronographs…

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