In 1962, a Breitling timepiece achieved the ultimate goal for a pilot’s watch when it reached outer space. Lt. Commander Scott Carpenter, one of the original Mercury 7 astronauts, orbited the Earth three times wearing the perfect replica Breitling Navitimer Cosmonaute watches.
Today, under the directorship of Georges Kern (former head of IWC – another manufacturer with inexorable links to the skies) Breitling produces a streamlined range of watches that can be divided into three classifications; land, sea, and air. The ‘air’ collection covers everything from faithful recreations of past glories harking back to the brand’s airborne heritage, through to some truly cutting-edge models, designed to survive just about anything. Below, we take a look at high quality fake Breitling’s class-leading pilot’s watches.
Breitling Aviator 8 Collection
When Georges Kern arrived at Breitling in 2017, it didn’t take long for him to show his hand and demonstrate exactly where he was going to lead the company. His first all-new release was initially christened the Navitimer 8, the name perhaps the most well-known in the whole of the pilot’s watch sphere. However, these new additions were very clearly an updated reissue of some of the earliest cheap CA copy Breitling pilot watches, and they were without the iconic slide rule bezel that makes the Navitimer collection so distinctive.
Although they were fine AAA Breitling replica watches in themselves, the title was a cause of confusion, so much so that they were renamed the Aviator 8 not long after. With that sorted out, the range was free to branch out and expand, and now takes in everything from simple time-only models, through day-dates, chronographs, and even a Worldtimer. Below are a few standout models.
Replica Breitling Aviator 8 AVI Ref. 765 1953 Re-Edition Watches
Key Features:
Case Diameter: 41mm
Materials: Stainless Steel, Red Gold, Platinum
Caliber: Breitling B09 (manually-wound)
Functions: Time, Running Seconds, 15-minute and 12-hour Chronograph Counters
Bezel: Fixed. 12-hour Scale
Dial: Black (Steel & Red Gold Models) Blue (Platinum Model)
Bracelet: Leather Strap (Black or Brown)
Water Resistance: 30 Meters
Retail Price: $8,600 – $39,900
We are currently living through a massive trend for all things vintage in horology. Many of the high-end brands are bringing out modern reinterpretations of classics from the archives, with varying levels of success. This latest effort from Breitling, released in 2020, is one that nails it completely. The blueprint (called the Co-Pilot ref. 765 AVI) stems from 1953, released alongside the first Navitimer reference. It stands as one of the more collectible vintage top Canada Breitling fake watches, a beautifully designed and highly capable watch with superb legibility. That makes it the perfect candidate for a renewal, and the Aviator 8 AVI Ref. 765 1953 Re-Edition is, at least visually, almost identical to the original.
The size is correct at 41mm, as is the 12-hour engraved bezel, secured with three screws in exactly the same positions as its ancestor. The large Arabic numeral indexes are spot-on too and have been filled with a beige Super-LumiNova to give the impression of an aged patina (one of those details it is very easy to overdo, but not so here). The 15-minute chronograph counter has the same trademark lume strips every three minutes, for all the world as if you are looking head-on at a five-bladed propeller. Inside, the 1953 Re-Edition is powered by Breitling’s own B09, a COSC-rated, manually-winding movement with a 70-hour reserve and vertical clutch. Released in either steel, rose gold, or platinum, the only downside with the Breitling super clone watches for sale is that it is a limited edition – at 1,953, 253, and 153 units, respectively.
Fake Breitling Aviator 8 B35 Automatic Unitime 43 Watches
Key Features:
Case Diameter: 43mm
Materials: Stainless Steel
Caliber: Breitling B35
Functions: Time, Date, Worldtimer
Bezel: Steel. Rotating
Dial: Black or Silver
Bracelet: Leather Strap or Steel Bracelet
Water Resistance: 100 Meters
Retail Price: $8,140
One of those watches that may be of more use to luxury globetrotters rather than the pilots who fly them, the Swiss made replica Breitling Aviator 8 B35 Automatic Unitime 43 watches resurrects another name from the past. Breitling created a series of worldtimer watches from the 1950s onwards, as the dawning of the jet age opened up international travel and watch brands from Rolex to Patek Philippe developed pieces that allowed wearers to keep tabs on several time zones at once.
Launched in 2018, the Unitime 43 displays 24 major world cities around the dial’s perimeter and an inner ring featuring a 24-hour scale. For a helpful reference, the scale is colored half blue and half black, so a quick glance can distinguish between night and day. The 1:1 wholesale fake Breitling watches’ hour hand can be adjusted independently or linked to the city disc, so if wearers travel between time zones and change their local time, the world time indication rotates and adjusts accordingly.
Driving it is the Breitling B35, a heavily reworked ETA 2892 which ups the power reserve of that unit from 42 to 70-hours and adds another 20 jewels. The 43mm piece is available with either a matte black or sunray silver dial, each with large Arabic numerals as befits a pilot’s watch. But the indexes are in white on both versions, leaving the black dialed model the more readable of the two. Fitted with either a steel bracelet or leather strap, it is another handsome inclusion to the range, with a genuinely useful complication.
Breitling Navitimer Collection
Probably the image which most readily springs to mind when you hear the phrase pilot’s watch, and one of the most identifiable forms in all horology, the Swiss movements Breitling Navitimer replica watches first arrived in 1953. Famed for its intricate slide rule bezel, it followed on from Breitling’s own Chronomat which included the same feature but aimed at scientists and engineers rather than pilots.
The Navitimer, however, was developed in conjunction with the AOPA (Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association), with the circular ‘navigation computer’ able to handle all the calculations necessary for a safe flight; airspeed, flight time, distance, fuel consumption, climb and descent rate, etc. It was immediately adopted by the association as its official timepiece and soon became a favorite of professional pilots all over the world.
A fixture of the industry ever since (bar a couple of quartz crisis-related years off at the start of the 1980s), the watch has gently evolved through the generations. A date function was added on some models, others were given self-winding calibers and there were even LED and LCD versions. Today the Navitimer collection is more than 40 models strong, ranging in size from 35mm up to 46mm, both chronograph and non-chronograph models, and in a variety of different metals. Below are some top favorites from the current collection.
Breitling Navitimer Ref. 806 1959 Re-Edition Replica Watches
Key Features:
Case Diameter: 41mm
Materials: Stainless Steel
Caliber: Breitling B09 (manually-wound)
Functions: Time, Chronograph, Navigation Computer Slide Rule Bezel
Bezel: Steel. Rotating
Dial: Black
Bracelet: Leather Strap
Water Resistance: 30 Meters
Retail Price: $8,600
There’s attention to detail and then there’s attention to detail. When Breitling wanted to introduce a contemporary audience to perhaps its greatest historical achievement, the brand decided to go all out. The 2024 China fake Breitling Navitimer Ref. 806 1959 Re-Edition watches is just about as precise a reproduction of the original watch as you could ask for. Everything is just about exactly as it was 60-years ago, even down to the number of beads in the emblematic bezel (a total of 94).
That dial, stuffed with an astonishing amount of information, is basically an exact duplicate as well, as is the domed Plexiglass covering on top. Like the Aviator 8 Re-Edition, only the lume has changed, now Super-LumiNova rather than the period-correct radium (thankfully) and nicely aged. The beautiful winged logo, and the text ‘BREITLING’ and ‘NAVITIMER’ in all caps are just as they should be.
The initial ref. 806 from 1959 was made long before Breitling finished in a three-way tie to create the first automatic chronograph caliber, so the Re-Edition gets the brand’s manually-wound manufacture B09, developed specifically for its series of reissues and based on the B01. COSC-rated and with a 70-hour reserve, Breitling has even refrained from fitting a display case-back to let you watch it at work, just like the original. Another limited edition, this time restricted to 1,959 pieces, the Ref. 806 is an absolute triumph for Breitling – sure to be a favorite among professional pilots and weekend warriors alike. Additionally, for the particularly well-heeled flier, the brand has also introduced a solid platinum version with a blue dial and strap. Production of the platinum variation is limited to only 59 units worldwide, and the replica Breitling watches for men is accompanied by an official retail price of $39,900.
Breitling Navitimer GMT 46 Fake Watches
Key Features:
Case Diameter: 46mm
Materials: Stainless Steel
Caliber: Breitling B24
Functions: Time, Date, Chronograph, Navigation Computer Slide Rule Bezel, Dual Time Zone
Bezel: Steel. Rotating
Dial: Black/Blue
Bracelet: Leather Strap/Steel Bracelet
Water Resistance: 30 Meters
Retail Price: $6,910 – $7,480
On the off-chance you felt the standard Breitling Navitimer wasn’t able to display enough information, the best replica Breitling Navitimer GMT 46 watches offers a dual time zone function as well. The larger 46mm case gives a lot more dial real estate to play with, so the 24-hour scale slips in unobtrusively under all the other scales around the outside, and an additional red arrow-tipped hour hand points out the destination time. A handy engraving on the case-back shows the various time zones for the world’s major cities too.
Elsewhere, all is classic Navitimer, with either a black or blue dial with tone-on-tone sub-dials. The second generation of the GMT switched the chronograph counters’ positions, from the traditional 3/6/9 layout to a 6/9/12 configuration. It has left the date display plus all the text and winged Breitling logo bunched over at the three o’clock location. It could have left an already very hard-working dial looking even busier, but the layout, as well as the sheer size, means everything is still perfectly readable. Available with either a color-coded leather strap or the Navitimer’s own seven staggered-link steel bracelet, it is the complete pilot’s luxury Breitling replica watches.
