Breitling For Bentley Motors Chronograph Luxury Watch Review

http://www.thewatchbox.com/watches/breitling#.VX9Z0lqRPFI Now in its second decade, the Breitling for Bentley partnership is one of the most successful and most enduring co-branding deals on the luxury landscape. Why is that? Because it just flat-out makes sense: big, bold, and beautiful is a winning combination for devotees of watches and wheels. The Breitling for Bentley Motors Chronograph Special Edition is cloaked in diamond plate motifs and polished stainless steel as a tribute to the Crewe automaker's history of motorsports success. From the first half of the twentieth century to the early years of the twenty-first, Bentley racing cars have tasted victory in many of the racing world's premier events. In fact, just one year after the union of Breitling and Bentley, the green Bentley Speed Eight GTP took victory (Bentley's sevent) at the 24 Hours of LeMans. With a metallic sunburst chocolate-bronze dial and a Breitling for Bentley “Speed” steel bracelet to match, the Breitling for Bentley Chronograph Special Edition is fitting tribute to its namesake machines. And like a true racing machine, this chronograph - arguably the ultimate complication for fans of motorsports - runs at double speed. Its 30-second revolutions allow larger jumps of the chronograph seconds hand to display the individual beats of the movement (eight per second) with greater clarity. This system, which is based on an early twentieth century Breitling chronograph patent, allows users to read tim