Breitling Movement Identification
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By BramleyGreg · Posted
I have this arriving on Wednesday... looking forward to picking it up.. I just love it on the blue. I cannot wait. 🤩 Greg. -
By BramleyGreg · Posted
Thank you very much oldhippy.. it is most appreciated. 🙂 -
By BramleyGreg · Posted
Cheers... I got a piece from Blower's over there a couple of years ago (Hull), but I have moved it along since as it wasn't getting wrist action. LMAO @ the wife being here... SWMBO will probably be proficient in watch servicing now I guess? 😄 -
By BramleyGreg · Posted
Yeah... I'd say it's Leeds anyway. Used to hang around with a few friends there back in the day when single and young, going in The White Swan regularly before it became a restaurant. Bramley, as in my username. 🙂 -
To be honest, they're not a good movement to have in a chronograph for several reasons. The first is the chronograph mechanism is a 'bolt on' module; If you look at the side of the watch case the crown won't be in line with the pushers, therefore only the branded company would have the ability to swap out the module because they aren't designed to be serviced and definitely not by an independent watchmaker. Secondly, the ETA 2892 A2 is a great movement, but when the chrono module is used with it it becomes pants, in my opinion/experience. So, going back to your watch. The problem isn't with the base movement, which is the 2892A2, as there would never be that amount of backlash/flutter in the gear train of that particular movement, it is with the chrono bolt on module that the problem lies and when the chrono sweep second hand is engaged the flutter of the second hand is remedied by the stability of the chronograph mechanism negating that flutter. Everything in the chronograph mechanism of that movement is powered by a wheel in the centre where the cannon pinion/driving wheel would normally be. I think it is a crappy design deliberately engineered to be disposable due to the time taken to service the module. Give me a 7750 any day!
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