Bike Mike

Beautiful! Wear it well!

I feel the same! I like the Batons as they give more of a professional look over the numeral, however I love the sub dial contrasts as on the arabic models.

Love seeing the classic B's! Keep em flying!

Sorry man! Baton dials only come with matching sub dials.

All COSC certified movements have a number engraved on them. This is so they can always be referenced and tracked during testing and at their service intervals. All Breitlings produced after 2000 are COSC certified. Prior to 2000, Breitling only COSC certified certain pieces, usually their high end Windrider and Navitimer series. These pieces were identified with either "CHRONOMETRE" printed on the dial and also the model numbers 4th character is the number 3 along with their COSC number engraved on the movement. So while your movement maybe a Gen B13, it was produced prior to 2000 and was not COSC.

Love the white Baton dial! Every time I see it, it makes me wish I did not get blue.

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If you have to ask if you should be slowing down, you obviously are not going fast enough!

This is what engine turning is, or should I say produces. Basically as the stock spins in the lathe chuck in move into and out from the tool (this can be a cutter, brush even a piece of hard wood) as it move across it. The speed, depth and distance across the working stock can be controlled to produce different "turning effects". The effects are endless. Here is a good link for engine turning in the watch industry. This is RGM Watch Company out of Pennsylvania. Check out their videos as they will show you exactly how they work. Video 1 Video 2 Video 3 Video 4 Hope this helps!

That is nice Doc, although not Croco, none the less nice!

Under the "Sell Info" and "Other item info" boxes on the right, there are 3 icons. One is a flag "Report Item".

You looking for Crocodile pattern or Gen Crocodile? A lot of the lower cost straps are croco. pattern embossed on leather to keep the price down as gen croc. is very $$$.

Wind her up, pull crown out to first position set the date, then pull crown out to second position to set the time. Push the crown back into case and go!

Get me a piece from a Gen Rolex and I would be more then happy to take a run at it. However, I think you would find the they due use 904. Could you imaging the fall back on them if it was ever discovered they used some other type of Stainless steel? 904 from a practicality stand point is nothing special. It is jammed packed full of Chromium, Nickel, Molybdenum and a splash of Copper, making it the best protection for high chloride and acidic environments. So unless you are a saturation diver or swimming in sulfuric acid, for all practical purposes, 904L would serve most of us no good in our time pieces. Throw nitric acid into the mix and you would much rather have 304L. If I could engineer my own time piece out of any material I could choose. I would chose a 440C. 440C SS has slightly less resistance to chlorides as 304, however the strength and hardness is beyond comparison! Scratches, marks, fine swirls

316 was in the clasp, but that was all. You have to remember that this was just based off my watch. Could be different for someone else exact piece. It is not far fetched, and I would bet any money that the materials differs at times. These manufactures are using what ever they can get their hands on at that time. This week you could buy a BCE for a dealer and it is made from 200 series stainless, 3 months later you buy the same piece from the same dealer it could very well be 440 or 904. The is no real way of knowing. It could be a hodge-podge of scrape garbage laying around. As I mentioned 304 is the most common grade of SS available and used in all of industry. 316 is the second most used having the addition of Molybdenum to help fight corrosion. The "L" variant just has extremely lower carbon content to it making it better for manufacturing, welding and even more corrosion resistant, however it makes is slightly weaker then 316. There is even a LN variant that has more nitrogen for lower tensile strength but retains the corrosion resistance. The dealers are just claiming what most Gen watch manufactures use, that being 316L, just to say "Hey, like the Gens we use 316L too and are every bit as good." Even with this so called 316F (SS hopped up on Phosphorus and Sulfur.) variant out now. It very well could be 316F, it could also be a heat treat process that they apply to what ever they have to give it that sheen close to 904.

Love it! I wish I could walk away from my job today and Engineer movements for time pieces. Great video! Thanks for sharing!

I actually put this in my schedule, the work on anyway. Glad you enjoy it! Not unless you are going to expose your watch to a high chloride environment and some deep diving, you will not see the difference. Basically 316L has a higher resistance to chemical attacks.

Update #3....Hope you enjoy it!

What about those of us that are carry over from TRC and did not get back into the hobby and post here until 2009?

I know my SOSF did, but the CA was way off as I recall. Of course I also have a closed "4"

It is Deployment, that or Breitlings price guide is wrong.

The lume shots for the SA dials are not of Gens.

Now how many of our Reps actually Ref. these numbers? I know my CA did not.

Thanks R, you are the best.

I would appreciate taking a look as I am looking at starting to hone my skills on a some 7750 movements. Please PM me.