Breitling chose its flagship Navitimer to debut the new chronograph Caliber B03 with split-seconds function. In this cover feature from our January-February 2018 issue (with photos by OK-Photography), we tested this manufacture caliber in a stainless-steel model with an exclusive bronze-colored dial.
At first glance it looks like a totally ordinary Navitimer chronograph, a model that has been a familiar icon for the past 55 years. Characteristic details include a fluted, bidirectional rotatable bezel, which, when turned, carries a light-colored flange marked with a logarithmic slide-rule scale. It?s positioned under the curved sapphire crystal, which has a nonreflective treatment on both sides. The logarithmic scale?s counterpart runs along the outermost edge of the dial. A tenth of an inch further inward is the tachymeter scale, which, in turn, encircles the elapsed-seconds scale with precise quarter-of-a-second divisions as imposed by the 4-Hz rhythm of the Breitling manufacture Caliber B03. Breitling Navitimer Rattrapante – front
The three light-colored counters on the dial are also familiar. The first is for the chronograph?s elapsed minutes, the second for the elapsed hours and the third for the continually running seconds. The trio distinguishes the new Navitimer?s bronze-colored dial, which is the first exclusive feature of this new rattrapante chronograph. A finely crafted sunburst pattern on the face plays gently with incident light, which also sparkles occas...