Breitling Navitimer 2022: Keeping an Icon Relevant

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By pretty much any measure the Breitling Navitimer is an icon. Picture a pilots chronograph and you are probably thinking of a Navitimer. Thats great, but how do you keep a 70 year old design relevant - 2022 has very different ideas of 'good' to 1952. But in updating an icon, can you keep its identity? Breitling has tried to do exactly that - watch the video to get my initial impression on how they did.

For your awareness some things about me and the channel.

Im an engineer whose into human behavior, loves the ideas behind art and sees watches as a mix or science, craft, art, business, history, technology, philosophy and psychology. As a result my videos cover all that ground.

Just to be clear, I hate the expression "its just a watch". If you got this far watches matter to you and they represent a bridge between us - dismissing them as unimportant seems wrong and disrespectful. That doesn't mean we cant and don't have fun, it just means we should not be totally mindless of others.

I'm a watch collector and curator - I like my collections to have a theme. My collection has several themes:
1. Vintage Alpina watches
2. Travel watches (GMT. UTC, world timers, home times, dual times)
3. Seiko Prospex dive watches
4. Breitling chronographs
5. Stuff I just really like.

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