BREITLING HONORS VINTAGE AIRCRAFT
The new Breitling Super AVI P-51 Mustang , cased in red gold .
Breitling ’ s Ref . 765 AVI pilot ’ s watch , introduced in 1953 and known as the “ Co-Pilot ,” is the inspiration for the justintroduced Super AVI watch collection , which reinterprets four vintage aircraft celebrating aviation history .
A back view of the Breitling Super AVI P-51 Mustang .
THE HONORED LEGENDARY PLANES ARE THE NORTH American Aviation P-51 Mustang , the Vought F4U Corsair , the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk , and the de Havilland Mosquito . And each new watch is unique in its own way . The Breitling Super AVI P-51 Mustang — named for the eponymous bomber / fighter that was a relative latecomer to the Pacific Theater — comes in two variations : with a stainless steel case with a black dial and brown leather strap , and a red-gold version with an anthracite dial and a black leather strap . The latter is exclusive to Breitling boutiques or online at Breitling . com .
The Breitling Super AVI Tribute to Vought F4U Corsair has a blue dial , tone-on-tone counters and a black leather strap , and it is designed in honor of the naval aircraft , which was the first single-engine fighter to crack the 400 mph mark .
The Breitling Super AVI Curtiss Warhawk is set with a military-green dial , white contrasting chronograph counters , and red accents . Its coloration is a nod to its namesake ’ s famous shark-mouth nose art .
Finally , the Breitling Super AVI Mosquito has a black ceramic bezel — the only one among the new collection with this distinction — and a black dial with white counters . Its red and orange details allude to the markings on the plane , nicknamed the “ Wooden Wonder .”
These new Breitling pilot ’ s watches , introduced earlier this year , feature 46mm cases with bi-directional ratcheted bezels and oversized crowns . The red-tipped GMT hands , in collusion with the 24-hour markings on the inner bezels , track a second time zone . The large Arabic numerals on the dials and bezels and Super Luminova-accented numerals , indexes , and hands provide optimal legibility .
Inside , the self-winding COSC-certified Caliber B04 drives the hours , minutes , seconds , date , and second time zone . This column-wheel chronograph movement with vertical clutch offers an impressive seventy hours of power reserve .
The leather watchstraps are lined in Breitling yellow and the case backs of the watches are decorated with renderings of the respective planes .
Prices : $ 23,650 ( red gold Mustang ), $ 10,100 ( steel Mustang ), $ 10,250 ( steel Mosquito ), $ 10,100 ( steel Corsair ) and $ 10,100 ( steel Curtiss Warhawk ).
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