Different from common fine steel and expensive precious metals, titanium metal has multiple characteristics of lightness, hardness, and excellent physical properties. Recently, Breitling, Girard Perregaux, and Blancpain have launched new products. Titanium watches, and focus on small size, classic geometric design and adventure themes respectively.
The Blancpain Fifty Fathoms watch, which has always been mainstream in 45 mm, launched a 42 mm Fifty Fathoms 70th Anniversary Limited Commemorative Act 1 version in a small trial last year. This year, it officially launched a grade 23 titanium case version, making the watch more popular. The model can be more suitable for daily use. The 1315 movement, the power source of the watch, is designed, manufactured, produced, assembled and adjusted by the Blancpain watch factory in-house. It also has a stop-second function for more precise adjustments. It has 300 meters of waterproof performance but uses a “see-through design”. You can see the 18K red gold automatic disk inspired by 1953 and covered with NAC platinum alloy coating.
Girard-Perregaux’s Laureato series is a classic design from 1975. This year, it launched a 42mm grade five titanium one-piece chain strap. The so-called grade 5 titanium is composed of 90% titanium, 6% aluminum, 4% vanadium and trace amounts of iron. It is light, strong and highly tough, so it is more difficult to polish. The gray dial is decorated with Paris hobnail decoration. Below, the GP03300 self-winding movement consists of 419 parts and is polished and decorated with pearl dots, snail patterns, and chamfers. When admiring the round case from the side, you can see the staggered polishing of the outer ring of the chronograph button, the crown, and the matte and shiny surfaces of the case, which reveals the beauty of architecture and structure from the details.
Breitling launched its first celebratory work for the brand’s 140th anniversary: the Aerospace B70 Orbiter aerospace multi-function hot air balloon B70 watch to commemorate the two hot air balloon pilots who boarded the Breitling Orbiter No. 3 hot air balloon in 1999 and finally completed a flight of 45,633 kilometers. A record that lasted 19 days, 21 hours and 47 minutes. Different from the tradition, the power source of the watch is a Breitling self-made B70 movement certified by the Swiss Official Observatory (COSC). Its accuracy is ten times that of standard quartz watches, and it has segmented timing and flyback functions. 1/100 second chronograph, countdown timer, second time zone, alarm clock and perpetual calendar functions.
The silver texture of the closed back cover of the watch imitates the silver texture of the original hot air balloon, and is printed with the orange Breitling Orbiter 3 words, which brings people’s imagination, enthusiasm and courage to fly away.
