Replica Breitling Aviator 8 Automatic 41 Curtiss Warhawk M173152A1L1X1 Watch
The Case
41mm black steel case.
The Dial
Military green dial. Luminous Arabic numerals & triangle hour markers. Fine printed minutes/seconds track. Hour & minutes hands with luminous fill. Date window located at the 6 o'clock position.
The Movement
Automatic, fabric strap.
Replica Breitling Aviator 8, launched in early 2018 as the Navitimer 8, the collection has since transitioned to become the Aviator 8, albeit without making much of a stir. The phrase “back to the cockpit” heralded the beginning of Georges Kern’s tenure as Breitling CEO in 2017. His aim was to revisit and reinvent Breitling’s first steps in the world of aviation. As early as the 1930s, Breitling produced cockpit instruments for airplanes, long before the first Navitimer with its famous slide rule came on the market in 1952, so it was surprising that the new line was called Navitimer (now “8”) and omitted the model’s characteristic slide rule. And the Navitimer 8 was supposed to be telling the part of Breitling’s pilots’ watch history that existed before the Navitimer. That’s why the Navitimer 8 features a number of elements from Breitling watches produced in the 1930s and ‘40s, like a rotating bezel.