Breitling Chrono Colt Ocean
Breitling chrono colt ocean
Leon Brietlling, the founder of breitling, the biggest chronographic watch manufacturer, least expected his empire to grow so much over the 100 odd years that it has been in the business. The company that started off mainly to make chronographs for industrial and for scientific use began to make them in watches that have evolved in its design and pattern over the last couple of years.
The Breitlling Colt Ocean is a masterpiece and is an automatic watch. Its self-winding mechanisim is quite impressive with a 42 hour reserve power option. It also has a day of month option. Automatic watches were first manufactured with Breitling. The Breitlling Colt Ocean came into production in the year 1990 and went on till 2002. This is a water resistant watch that can prove its functionalities upto 1650 feet and comes under the Breitling Aeromarine Range of watches. The Breitling Avenger and the breitling Superocean are the other popular ones in the Breitling Aeromarine series of watches. The movement of the Breitlling Colt Ocean is Breitling B17. It is based on an ETA 2824 and has 25 jewels and one sapphire crystal in it. This stainless steel cased, Unidirectional rotating bezel fitted watch is truly one that is rugged and classy.
It is not the same as the Breitlling Colt Oceane, the Breitlling Colt Oceane is a quartz watch that is for the female gender. This version of the Breitling is also in production and available in the market. The Breitlling Colt Ocean has been a big hit right from the time it was in production. Some of the Breitling watches have been certified independently by COSC to prove their accuracy. If you want to know whether your breitling is certified, then you will have to look at the back of the watch to confirm if the fourth character of the reference number of the watch is engraved on it. all the Breitling watches after 2000 have all been certified by COSC.
When you decide to buy a watch that is expensive you will be pleased to buy yourself Breitling. The Breitlling Colt Ocean is considered to be the entry level watch of the Breitling series of watches. It is not as expensive as the other models of Breitlings that you get in the market.
The watch has a double anti-glare coding which is an awesome feature. This prevents the watch from hosting any glare in it. with lighting conditions, the colour of the dil changes to make it look different. The lithium battery on this one has a warrantee for 8 years. Which means you just have to firget about changing its battery for a really long time. Unlike most of the watches that need a battery change very frequently. The design is asymmetric that the boring symmetric designs of other watches. The chronometer of the watch is fully tested, which means that the watch has been through an accuracy testing lab. The watch has been tested at different kinds of temperatures and conditions for a 15 day period. A certificate is usually given for the watches that have been through extensive accuracy testing. This accuracy feature is something which all rolex watches are also tested for.
The watch is waterproof and can go upto 500 meters in water. The normal watches have a limit of 50 meters. A few other branded watches have a limit of 200 meters alone. However, the waterproof level of a Breitlling Colt Ocean surpasses all. This is the superior quality and sturdiness of the Breitlling Colt Ocean. The automatic watches are excellent collectors delight when compared to the manual ones.