Breitling’s Navitimer 1 B03 Rattrapante 45, unveiled in 2017, represented a new technical height for the aviation-focused watchmaker: namely its first model with a in-house-made split-seconds chronograph movement. This year, Breitling re-interprets its most highly complicated chronograph watch in a new model pairing a luxurious 18k rose-gold case with the brand’s hallmark ?Stratos gray? dial.
Breitling Navitimer B03 Chronograph Rattrapante 45 in rose gold with Stratos gray dial (Ref. RB0311E61F1P1)
The timepiece?s case measures a robust 45 mm case in diameter and features the inner rotating bezel with a circular slide rule, a useful tool for aviators during the early days of flight and a signature of the Navitimer since the original?s debut in 1952. Under a convex, double-nonreflective coated sapphire crystal, the dial hosts three dark gray-toned-toned subdials (30-minute chronograph counter at 3 o?clock, 12-hour chronograph counter at 6 o?clock, small seconds at 9 o?clock) and hour markers and central hands coated in Super-LumiNova. As on previous versions of the Navitimer Rattrapante, the overlapping central chronograph seconds hands, with the brand?s ?anchor B? logo counterweight, makes a clever departure from the usual design: the ?B? is on the main red chronograph hand and the anchor is on the split-seconds hand. The two logo elements are separated when the split seconds hand is stopped and rejoined when the two hands are overlaid. The split-seconds pusher,...