Breitling for Bentley GMT Chronograph A47362 Luxury Watch Review

Watchuwant is now WatchBox! Subscribe for the best luxury watch content. Like its namesake luxury auto, a Breitling for Bentley luxury watch looks best when “fully loaded.” With this Breitling for Bentley GMT Chronograph reference A47362, Breitling seems to agree. It's a chronograph, a chronometer, a GMT, a dual-time, and a world time watch in one 49mm package. This much technology in a larger-than-life polished steel case evokes one car - and only one car. The Bentley DNA runs strong in this one. It's hard to say whether a dual-time or chronograph is the ultimate practical complication, so Breitling includes both. Whether keeping track of 24-hour races on tracks worldwide, keeping in touch with friends overseas, or clocking billable hours on the chronograph, this Breitling for Bentley GMT Chrono finds a way to make itself a daily impact player. An additional refinement comes in the form of Breitling’s original “30-second” chronograph system. The unique modification to the base chronograph movement is both historic and practical. As an original 1926 Breitling patent, the “30 second” chronograph accelerator multiplies the physical dial space swept by each “beat” of the 4hz (eight beat per second) chronograph seconds hand. Rather than cram each eighth of a second into an illegible one-second calibration, Breitling doubles the swept area of each beat and enables easier reading to the smallest (1/8 second) increment that the COSC-certified chronometer chronograph can reso