Breitling Celebrates 100 Years of Bentley with Premier Centenary Limited Edition
The partnership between Breitling and Bentley Motors ? the longest between a watch brand and a luxury automaker, established in 2003 ? made another stride at this year’s Geneva International Motor Show. Alongside the British marque’s launch of the Centenary Limited Edition Continental GT Number 9 Edition by Mulliner, the Swiss watchmaker released a very special collectors’ timepiece, the Breitling Premier Bentley Centenary Limited Edition.
The Breitling Premier B01 Chronograph 44 Bentley Centenary in Gold
The Bentley Continental GT Number 9 Edition by Mulliner, and the restored vintage “Blower”
The watch, the latest Bentley-branded model from the re-established Premier collection that debuted in 2018, is offered in either an 18k rose gold or stainless steel case, each measuring 42 mm in diameter and each limited in number ? 200 pieces of the gold edition, 1,000 of the steel. Its distinguishing feature, the one that links it to both the Continental GT Number 9 automobile and to Bentley racing history, is its brown elm burl dial, which matches the wooden inserts in the car’s dashboard. Those inserts come from the wooden seats of the legendary 1930 No. 9 Le Mans “Blower” Bentley race car, driven by Tim Birkin of the legendary Bentley Boys team, which Bentley restored as part of its centennial celebration. The handsome wooden dial is enhanced with two subdials at 3 and 9 o’clock, for chronograph minutes and running seconds...
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