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This or That? Breitling Edition
I've been working out and the last few good have been good to me and I'm a bogan so I want a big heavy shiny watch on a bracelet that tells strangers I'm boss and also pretty hard. I want a Breitling. I love the Colt, always wanted an all-brushed watch:
Only concern is the Colt isn't shiny and so might not look money to the uninitiated. Also indices don't have polished metal borders. And it could be a bit small now my arms and wrist are big. So...
Would you get a Superocean Steelfish?
2,000m hunk of surgical/aerospace-grade stainless steel badness. Love the applied B badge. Big enough that it will stand out even on my big arms. Red AUTOMATIC and seconds hand are too cool. Enough shiny bits that even a woman can tell it's expensive. Circular-grooved dial is groovy. Badass. ICONIC.
Or would you get an Avenger Seawolf?
Fuck your puny 2,000m WR, this badboy gives you the full 3,000m. You can shower and even go in a sauna with this thing, no worries. Love the applied B badge. Knurled crown is manly as fuck, I will get hairs on my chest if I wear this thing, I just know it. Big enough that it will stand out even on my big arms. Red AUTOMATIC and seconds hand are too cool. But does it have enough shiny bits? Arabics might be a bit more 'operator' than 'analyst' - I don't have any tatts and I don't have a ute or jet ski. Dial is a bit flat, not groovy. Even though it goes deeper it probably doesn't look as expensive. Badass. But probably not iconic.
I would prefer a quartz but they don't do any new ones and the older ones aren't quite as cool perhaps but there is this:
https://www.chrono24.com.au/breitling/b ... 450787.htm
https://www.chrono24.com.au/breitling/c ... 356630.htm
Only 500m and 41mm but still nice and tall and shiny and got the other good bits like applied logo and red details. Not sure if shadow Arabics completely work and I get the feeling lume is poor.
I kind of feel like a Bretiling should be a chrono but don't want to fuck around dealing with maintaining a mechanical chrono and they don't do any recent cool chronos in quartz, so I would like this:
https://www.chrono24.com.au/breitling/b ... 197064.htm
Aesthetically it's perfect and guys down at the local will worship me but yeah, don't want to be setting the time and don't want to be paying my watchmaker to service it.
So it's probably a choice between Seawolf and Steelfish (even the names are incredible - other brands suck bags of dicks), and I'll just not bother setting it. Unless the esteemed Lords can suggest anything even more awesome that is quartz and ticks all the other boxes?
If it thinks, it stinks