Breitling Superocean Black Watches Review | SwissWatchExpo
Today, we’re going to be going
deep and we’re going deep with
a couple of Breitling Superocean. Of
course, these have pretty phenomenal
water resistant ratings. They are dive
watches, stick around and find out more.
Welcome back everybody. Like I said today, we’re
going to be talking about these Breitling. They
are both Superocean models as a part of the
Superocean collection. They are both going to
be black watches and is kind of why I chose them.
We’re going to get into that, but I do want to
talk about some of the technical specs that go
into these two dive watches. Now, you’ll notice
that one of them is a chronograph and one of them
is just time only. Now they’re both 44 millimeter
cases. They both are made out of stainless steel
and they both have the black applied coating so
that it gives it this really nice dark finish to
it. Of course, because their dive watches, you can
get them with the rubber strap, which is what we
have on both of them. One of them, this case, the
chronograph version has a Tang buckle and we’ve
got a deployant clasp on our time only version.
Now, of course, those are somewhat interchangeable
and you can get whichever one’s going to fit
comfortably for you. But the rubber is the
way to go, especially if you’re going to be
in the water. So you don’t have to worry about it
stretches a little bit, it’s easier to adjust to
get around your suit. It’s just, it’s a very,
it’s a very convenient method of wearing your
watch when you’re actually going to be using
it in the water. Now, of course you don’t have
to use these watches in the water, but that
is what they were designed to be used. For
this one over here, the chronograph has
a 500 meter water resistant trading,
and the time only doubles that
and goes down to a thousand.
Now we’ve talked a little bit about water
resistant ratings — a 100 meters here, 300 there.
And I’ve said many times that it
doesn’t mean you can actually swim
down 500 meters or a thousand
meters below the surface. Well,
I was doing a little more digging into how they
come up with these ratings. And I figured out,
I figured out why those are static pressure
tests. So it would be like, if you have this watch
a thousand meters below the surface, exactly
the watch wasn’t moving. And there was no
no current in the water, it would work. But
the fact that you’re going to be in the ocean,
you’re going to have water. That’s pressing up
against the crystal. You’re going to be swimming.
So your arm’s going to be moving. And all of
those things have an impact on the amount of
pressure that’s being applied to these seals. So
there’s, there’s your little tidbit as to why a
water resistance rating is not really how deep you
can go in one of these watches, but nonetheless,
I mean, 500 meters, a thousand meters, if
you’re going that deep, like, congratulations,
I hope you’re coming back because I will
probably never go down that far in the ocean.
One thing when you get that low, there’s not a
lot of light. I mean, it’s really, really dark.
You know, that far below the surface. And that is
one of the reasons Breitling chose such a striking
contrast for their dials. You’ll
notice that both of these watches,
not only the 500, but also the thousand,
they both have really like almost fat
like index markers. All of the luminescent
properties are thicker than normal. They’re
a little bit longer than normal and they’re
really bright. And they do that on purpose
because if you’re down where the sun can’t
reach and you’re underwater, you have to be
able to see your watch. So you can know how much
time you have how much oxygen you have left,
how long you been down there, what time, what
if the sun is even still up, if you take your
if you ascend back to the surface, but let’s talk
a little bit about what goes into these watches.
Obviously we’ve got a chronograph,
so you’ve got the ability to stop,
start and reset. And this one’s going to be time
only well inside our chronograph, we’ve got the
Breitling — the B17 movement. This is going to
be based on the Valgjioux 7750. And over here,
we’ve got the Breitling 17 movement, and this is
going to be another ETA based movement. Of course,
time only, they both have a 42 hour power reserve.
And again, they do have some pretty impressive
water resistant ratings. Now come check them out.
You’re more than welcome to give us a call or
ask us some questions. Post some comments.
I do want to talk about one other element on
this particular piece that really separates it
from other dive watches that I’ve seen. So both
of these watches are going to have a screw-down
crown. And in the case of the chrono pushers here,
this one is also going to have screw down pushers.
So you actually have to unscrew this chrono
pusher to be able to actuate it or use it.
And that is going to be a water resistant function
to help make sure that no water is getting through
the chrono pushers that you know, can be used. Now
on our time only version where the stem is inside,
where the crown meets the two, it’s going to be a
little difficult for you to see from this video.
I’m going to do my best to show you.
But if you look closely at the base
of the tube, you’ll notice a red rain that
actually goes all the way around the tube.
And so this is just another element that
Breitling through it. And it’s a very,
it’s a very small, subtle design element, but it’s
there so that you can actually look at your watch.
And we know that these crowns don’t actually
go flush up. They’re going to be really close,
but it’s not going to be smack dab
up against. And so what you can do is
you can just set check. You can look at
the back of your watch or on the front.
And if you can see that red line, that means
your crown is not screwed in enough to help
ensure that thousand meters of water resistance.
This watch also has a completely ceramic bezel on
it. It’s not like a bezel insert. Like we find on
some Rolex watches, some other brands out there
the whole bezel has got from one piece of
ceramic. So there are a lot of great elements
that go into both of these pieces. Come check
them out at SwissWatchExpo before they’re gone.
