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VINTAGE BREITLING
DOUBLE PLANE
TWIN JETS
BUCKLE
CUSTOM LIZARD STRAP
MADE TO ORIGINAL
VINTAGE BREITLING SPECIFICATIONS
YOUR NAVITIMER, COSMONAUTE OR OTHER BREITING WILL LOOK LIKE IT DID RIGHT OUT OF THE BOX.
If you maximize the last picture, you can read under the watch features that AOPA Navitimers had lizard straps.
BREITLING'S LIZARD STRAPS USED ON
NAVITIMERS AND COSMONAUTES THROUGHOUT THE 50s AND 60s WERE GENERIC.
THEY WERE 22mms. AT THE LUGS AND 16 mms.. AT THE BUCKLE, SO THE TAPER WAS EXTREME. THEY HAD A SINGLE VERY WIDE KEEPER. THE SAME STRAPS, ALSO GENERIC, WERE USED BY OTHER WATCH MANUFACTURERS, NOTABLY, WAKMANN. THEY WERE MADE FOR BREITLING AND WAKMANN BY VARIOUS STRAP MANUFACTURERS, NOTABLY J&B CHAMPION IN THE UNITED STATES WHICH WAS THE LARGEST MARKET, BUT J&B'S NAME DID NOT APPEAR EITHER. IN THE VERY LATE 60s BREITLING STARTED SIGNING THEIR STRAPS, BUT FEW WERE MADE WITH THIS SPECIFICATION. MY CUSTOM MADE REPLICA STRAPS ARE LEGAL AND LEGITIMATE UNDER EBAY'S RULES BECAUSE THEY ARE COPIED FROM A GENERIC PRODUCT, AND THEY ARE CORRECTLY CALLED REPLICAS BECAUSE THEY ARE MADE TO THE SAME SPECIFICATIONS AS THOSE USED BY BREITLING ON THE GENERIC BANDS IN USE IN THE 50s AND 60s.
THE BUCKLES ARE ORIGINAL O.E.M. BREITLING BUCKLES LEFT OVER FROM THE 70s. THE STRAPS ARE MADE TO FIT BOTH THE BUCKLES AND 806 NAVITIMERS, 809 COSMONAUTES, AND 765 AVIs AND COPILOTS, AS WELL AS NUMEROUS 70s BREILTINGS THAT TAKE A 22mm BAND.
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