Bike Mike

Here is a Lume Shot of my Gen.

Bill, Here you go. I just fired it up and every thing works fine. I do not know if this is hi or low beat movement. Let me know if you would like it. I just looked and I paid $125 for it shipped.

Bailey Bank & Biddle are closing several of their stores. Last month I was visiting my brother in Atlanta, GA. Bought a Zenith Class Open Traveller Multicity for $5800. Over 60% of retail. The also had a Defy Xtreme Chrono and Xtreme Open at 60% off as well. Lots of Omegas too. POC in both Black and Orange face for around $2900 out the door. Also got a couple Croco Breilting Straps on deployments for $250!

ShopNBC brand as I like to refer to them. Roots might be Swiss but the watchs are not. Interesting looking though. Congrats.

AD= Authorized Dealer for Gen. time pieces. Gen.= Genuine Take a look at our trusted dealers list and do a lot of research about members thoughts of the dealers they have dealt with. Lots of great info around here.

My favorite Gen SA.

I know a AD where you can get a Gen @ 60% off! Beautiful piece, just not a good rep. available.

I think it is a white date wheel with black text. If you already have the proper date wheel, you should be able to swap it out. I will get some pics up tonight for you.

I recommend taking to your AD. This way if anything happens, your AD will take care of it with Breitling. If you attempt it and some thing does go wrong where the watch needs to be sent to Breitling, you will automatically be charged the basic service fee (I think around $150-$200 for quartz). My battery went dead last year on my Airwolf. When my AD replaced the battery the service tech. some how cross threaded the case back on. I noticed a couple days later the case back was not sitting level to the rest of the watch and returned it to my AD. They sent it to Breitling along with the warranty/service book that was filed out showing the battery replacement. 3 weeks later I got my Airwolf back. New case, case back, movement serviced and all polished up looking brand new. $1775 was the cost all covered by BUSA. Also most AD's offer free battery replacement for life if you purchased the piece from them.

I am almost 100% positive I have a brand new one laying around if interested. Subdials @ 3-6-9 with date @ 4. Bought it for a project until I got my hands on a ETA 7753. I will post some pics tonight.

Which reps use this movement? Anything in the Bentley line like most of the Gens?

Go check out a Gen, I swear you could pull it off with your finger nail. You can actually feel the rubber moving ontop of the metal bezel. I think breitling would have been better making a solid rubber bezel.

If memory serves, the 47B is a ETA 2892 with a GMT module and 30sec. chrono complication. I was shopping around for a Navi. World around the time my AD got their first Bentley GMT in stock. The Breitling rep. just happen to be there so I asked him what movement it used. He stated is was the same movement base as the Chrono-Matic 49 (B14 movement, ETA 2892) that had additional complications added to it created by Breitling in-house for the GMT and 30sec. chrono sweep hand. A rep of this movement would involve Running secs @3 with a GMT function. Being that the A7750 is used in the rep. World with running secs moved to 3, a GMT complication would need to be added. Don

In what way? AP ROO Gen's have seconds that run @12 with the subdial slightly closer to center then the other sub dials. The same issue will exist with the crown and pushers being aligned to one another. The Gens crown is offset lower to the pushers. The secs @9 movement will be more reliable (as well as a dead give away to being fake) as moving the seconds to 12 puts additional strain on the movement that eventually causes it to fail requiring service. Use the search function, there is a lot of great info around here.

I can tell you after having my hand on the Gen. Aerospace & Skyracer Raven I would not buy it. One good whack to the bezel that rubber is going to tear off. My AD was half tempted to pick away at it to see how thick it was. Maybe 0.25-0.50mm thick. Looks great, but Breilting should have done a thicker rubber coating.

I will see what I can find. At one time I had them up at TRC, but that is when I was using Sony Image Share for picture hosting. Now that site is defunct I don't know where I have them.

I can understand that 100%. I would love to build my own piece, I just do not have the time to research and collect all the pieces. I used to dedicate more time to this hobby. When I bought my rep. HBB, I tossed the Asian 7750 decaled rotor and replaced it with a ETA blank rotor that I had CNC machined out to the exact measurements of a gen. I must have spent over 2 weeks on at my CAD station measuring pictures of a gen rotor, and creating it to be machined out. After that I went after the winding bridge removing the decal and had the "H" CNC'd into the bridge. About 1 month of design and machine time I had a exact 1:1 copy of the rotor and bridge. After another month I had the movement torn apart and decorated to original. I enjoyed it greatly, now I have too many other hobbies taking up my time. Maybe I will get back into doing more mods one day.

Replicas have aided me in deciding on the gens I want without causing me to lose thousands of $$$ by buying the gen. just to find out I do not like it. I have used reps as a "inexpensive trial" so to speak. Instead of buying a piece wearing it for a few months deciding I do not like it and trading it in for a major $$$ loss on another piece, I just buy a rep. I could care less about the accuracy and flaws, regardless how minor or major. For instance I am turned off by Rolex subs after owning a rep. A sub was one piece I always wanted, bought the rep and after 2 weeks decided it was not at all for me. On the other hand I purchased a rep blue face Breitling SOSF. One week later I went directly to my AD to buy the real deal. Another example, I purchased a rep HBB on rubber strap. I quickly found the rubber strap was not robust enough to support such a heavy piece. After talking with my AD about a gen HBB, he told me that all his customers the bought HBB disliked the rubber strap and bought the bracelet. This reinforced my feelings so I ordered the gen with a bracelet. No matter how much modding is done to a rep. for me, it is still not the same. Being a engineering, I love all things mechanical and am overly critical of perfection. Even a 100% accurate rep to me would still be a rep and not the real deal.

The issue for me would be even if they rep. this model, the give away would be the movement, as the Gen. chrono is 30sec and not the typical 60sec.

Correct. I bought it 4 months ago. They had a the LE of 300 piees too with the Red subdial hands. As much as I buy LE peices when I can, the Red hands just really took away from the look of this watch, hence why is bought this one instead.

The Gen's subdials are more of silver where the dial is darker grey. The subdials are recessed.

I absolutly love the Graham watches! Saw this one at my AD last weekend and decided I must have it. If they will drop down to 35%-40% off retail it will buy it. Right now they are only offering up 30%.

Richard Mille RM-011. Really anything from Richard Mille.

You are not the only one.

I don't know but I would love to have access to that engine lathe.