This New Chronograph Watch Celebrates Breitling’s Partnership with Bentley.
Breitling launches a special watch in celebration of its partnership with Bentley Motors. The Breitling Premier Bentley Mulliner Limited Edition shares part of its design inspiration with Bentley’s Continental GT Mulliner Convertible.
The new Breitling timepiece commemorates 17 years of collaboration – the longest-ever partnership between a watch brand and an automobile manufacturer – and focuses on the Bentley Mulliner workshop, which since 1959 has crafted the leading luxury carmaker’s most unique tailor-made models.
The new chronograph has some close links to the interior of the Bentley Continental GT Mulliner Convertible, the most luxurious GT ever designed, and particularly to the Breitling clock in the luxury automobile’s dashboard.
Its elegant silver dial recalls the Bentley Continental GT Mulliner Convertible’s dashboard clock. The watch features blue subdials – a 30-minute counter at 3 o’clock and a small-second subdial at 9 o’clock – an indication revealing the presence of the Breitling Manufacture Caliber 01, with an impressive power reserve of approximately 70 hours. They are limited to 1,000 pieces altogether.
The links between the watch and the clock are further strengthened by their complementary sets of Arabic numerals: the dashboard clock features the numerals at 12, 3, 6 and 9, while the watch has the mat 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, and 11. Sharing these numerals across the two pieces is a nod to the design DNA they share. The red second hand and centered 60-minute scale mirror the red stitching found throughout the interior cabin of the Bentley Continental GT Mulliner Convertible.
On the left side of the case is a plate with an engraved “Bentley” inscription, whose design is based on the engine spin dashboard found in historic Bentleys. Around the watch’s transparent sapphire caseback is an inscription that reads “MULLINER EDITION – BREITLING – ONE OF 1000”. The Breitling Premier Bentley Mulliner Limited Edition is a COSC-certified chronometer.
The price for the Breitling Premier B01 Chronograph 42 Bentley Mulliner Limited Edition $8,650 USD.
Breitling Premier B01 Chronograph 42 Bentley Mulliner Limited Edition
Technical specifications:
Reference: AB0118A71G1P1 or AB0118A71G1P2
Movement:
· Caliber: Breitling Manufacture Caliber 01
· Diameter: 30 mm
· Depth: 7.2 mm
· Winder: self-winding mechanical, bidirectional with ball bearing
· Power reserve: approximately 70 hours
· Number of components: 346
· Balance frequency: 28,800 a/h or 4 hertz
· Chronograph: column-wheel, vertical clutch, 1/4th second, 30-minute counter
· Display: hour, minute, second
· Certification: COSC-certified
Case:
· Material: stainless steel
· Diameter: 42mm
· Height: 13.65 mm
· Water resistance: up to 10 bar (100 meters)
· Glass: sapphire, convex, double anti-reflective
· Caseback: screwed steel, sapphire glass
· Crown: non-screw-locked, two gaskets
Dial/Hands:
· Silver with contrasting blue chronograph counters
· Super-LumiNova luminescent hour and minute hands
Strap: Blue alligator leather strap with pin or folding buckle
