Breitling Avenger Skyland

The Type XX and Type XXI chronographs don’t seem to get quite as much attention as you would think they’d get, at least in the USA, where the world of pilot’s chronographs skews much more heavily towards companies like IWC, Omega, and Breitling. Maybe part of the reason for that is that when you think of tool watches, you might think of an awful lot of companies but Breguet just isn’t one of them – tourbillons, certainly, and a history of making aesthetically irrepr........

OK, I'm not getting that much time to watch hunt these days; maybe a few times a week to ebay and a prowl around the usual vendors. But boy o boy, when I do get there - the cupboard is bare!My usual ebay search has returned about 700 hits for the past year or more. Last week or two - 510. And what a bunch of dross. Bulk lots of tired movements and tired watches; movements with cases presumably scrapped for gold. One or two models of interest but sheesh, not a good time to have money burning........