Breitling Transocean Chronograph Unitime Luxury Watch Review

http://www.thewatchbox.com Reborn for 2011, the Breitling Transocean line has become the Solothurn watchmaker's go-to for enthusiasts who prefer classical Breitling style and heritage-inspired design. If big bling isn't your thing, the Breitling Transocean Chronograph Unitime may be the Breitling for you. The Transocean Unitime combines Breitling's in-house B05 world time chronograph movement with a 46mm steel case that pays homage to great mid-century Breitlings of the company's salad days in La Chaux-de-Fonds. During the 1950s and 1960s, the company's Chronomat, Navitimer, and Superocean professional watches were associated with world-wandering adventure, and the Transocean Chronograph Unitime draws upon this heritage to inspire its unique aesthetic. True to its name, the Breitling Transocean Chronograph Unitime pairs a chronograph stopwatch mechanism with a world time complications. Each of the 24 reference cities on the world time chapter ring represents one of the world's 24 principal time zones. A 24-hour timing ring rotates counterclockwise and allows the user to read instantly the time in any city of the world; the hour in each city is the hour adjacent to the city name on the 24-hour ring. Breitling's world time complication benefits from the expansive and high-contrast black dial. With so much real estate available (thank the decidedly non-retro 46mm case), Breitling is able to expand the city names, calibrations, and hour indices to a readable scale. Few world