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TV PROP USED "FOR ALL MANKIND"-  Breitling Navitimer Aerospace Titanium & 18K Gold Ref. F56059
Leased to the TV Show "For All Mankind" - Pleasing Condition - 1 Year Warranty

Leased to the TV Show "For All Mankind" - Pleasing Condition - 1 Year Warranty

Today's auction showcases this highly functional and well-designed Certified Pre-Owned Breitling Aerospace bi-metal titanium and gold watch wristwatch that was leased to the popular, award-winning Apple TV show "For All Mankind" in 2022 and worn by multiple characters throughout the series.

These Aerospace watches are feature rich to say the least - they have everything but the kitchen sink. Besides the analog hour and minutes functions, this watch possesses these digital functions:

  • Local Time (hh:mm:ss) and analog without second hand
  • Date + Seconds display
  • Date + Date display
  • Quick-setting hour for easy time-zone changing
  • Alarm for Local Time, repeating if not canceled
  • Chronograph - simple count up with stop/start, 100th seconds for first hour, seconds after that, up to 48h00m00s
  • Count down timer with alarm, from 23h59m59s down to 1s, alarm with repeat if not canceled
  • Second Time Zone (hh:mm:ss)
  • Repetition Minutes - time chimed out if crown depressed when time is digitally displayed

Operating its functions is easy, as everything is done through the crown. This watch is one of the less common bi-metal versions made from titanium and gold.

It is in pleasing condition - about an 8.5 out of 10. The glareproofing film coating the sapphire crystal, nearly always full of hairlines after a bit of use, is wonderful mint. The back has fairly light remnants of wear throughout from the bracelet contacting it, and the small gold riders tabs on the bezel show moderate wear. On the wrist, it presents beautifully.

Cosmetically we have left the watch just as it was after finishing its lease.

Included with the purchase is a one-year C.O.T. international warranty on the movement and its function and a full-page custom printed Connoisseur of Time Certificate of Authenticity.

Breitling Retail Price for an all-titanium Aerospace not worn in a famous TV series (The gold and titanium version which had a higher retail is no longer offered): $4,375.00 USD + tax

 

For All Mankind:

For All Mankind is an award-winning American science-fiction drama television series produced for Apple TV+. It dramatizes an alternate history depicting "what would have happened if the global space race had never ended" after the Soviet Union succeeds in the first crewed Moon landing ahead of the United States Its title was inspired by the lunar plaque left on the moon by the crew of Apollo 11, which reads in part, "We Came in Peace for All Mankind."

The series stars an ensemble cast including Joel Kinnaman, Michael Dorman, Sarah Jones, Shantel VanSanten, Jodi Balfour, Wrenn Schmidt, Sonya Walger, and Krys Marshall. Cynthy Wu, Casey W. Johnson, and Coral Peña joined the main cast for the second season, while Edi Gathegi joined in the third. The series features historical figures including Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins, Mercury Seven astronaut Deke Slayton, rocket scientist Wernher von Braun, astronaut Sally Ride, NASA administrator Thomas Paine, NASA flight director Gene Kranz, U.S. senators Ted Kennedy and Gary Hart, along with U.S. Presidents Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton.

The show premiered on November 1, 2019 and is in its fourth season. From 2019 -2021 it was nominated for IGN's "Best New TV Series" award, won Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards "Outstanding Innovation in Interactive Programming" award, was nominated for TCA's "Outstanding Achievement in Drama" award, and won Saturn's Best Fantasy Television Series Award. In 2022 and so far in 2023 it has been nominated for Critics' Choice Television's "Best Drama Series" award and has been nominated or won five other awards including "Best Science Fiction Series" and Best Science Fiction Series (Streaming).

 

Our new Celebrity Collection:
I'm excited to have launched a collection that is composed of 69 watches owned or worn by 37 iconic celebrities and public figures. It may be the largest current collection of celebrity-owned watches in the world. It will be constantly changing and is currently headlined by watches and clocks owned by some of the most legendary Hollywood actors and actresses, musicians, comedians, and entertainers:

The King, Elvis Presley. (Just sold)

The King of Pop, Michael Jackson.

The King of Comedy, Jerry Lewis.

The Artist Formerly Known as Prince

Hollywood icons Steve Martin, Burt Reynolds, Betty White, Olivia Newton-John, Bob Hope, Greta Garbo, and Mickey Rooney.

Legendary musicians Johnny Cash, Frank and Nancy Sinatra, Beatles drummer Ringo Starr, Kenny Rogers, Don Mclean, Leslie West, and Hank Williams, Jr.

Sports great and soccer legend Pelé, heavyweight boxing champion Jack Dempsey, Yankee great Lefty Gomez, and Green Bay Packer Mike Bucchianeri along with the game ball, signed photo and watch from the college football "all star" Blue Gray Game in 1940.

Further filling the current collection are watches from King Edward VIII and the Duchess of Windsor, beloved Hollywood host Ed Sullivan, Academy award-winning actresses Loretta Young and Doris Day, Emmy award-winning actress Valerie Harper, renowned illusionists Siegfried & Roy, Phyllis McGuire of the chart-topping McGuire sisters, Elvira Mistress of the Dark (Cassandra Peterson), fashion designer to the stars Nolan Miller, and a watch worn by multiple characters throughout the television series "For All Mankind."

It also includes rare watches given by heads of state: A prototype 18K gold Buren Microrotor gifted by His Royal Majesty Ibn Saud, former King of Saudi Arabia; a Felsa given by former Libyan Colonel and Head of State Muammar Al Qathafi; a Longines given by Highness Khalifa bin Salman Al-Khalifa former Prime Minister of the State of Bahrain; a Baume & Mercier gifted by the King of Jordan. All three watches are new-old-stock in presentation shadow box frames with photos.

Recently sold was a watch given a handful of years after the Civil War concluded by the Vice President Elect to honor an Army commander who went on to receive the Medal of Honor.

This is a significant, exciting, and constantly changing new collection you won't want to miss! Stay tuned over the coming weeks for photos of other special pieces from the collection!

To view the first few already up for sale follow this link:


Timepiece's Finer Points:

Dial: Navy blue which can appear a little blue through the crystal at times, easy to read luminous hands and indices, signed Breitling Aerospace, mint condition

Crystal: Sapphire, mint condition with no scratches to the glareproofing film

Case: Titanium with gold rider tabs, unidirectional ratcheting bezel with time elapsed function, brushed, water resistant to 100 meters (330 feet) 42mm diameter, 10.2mm thick

Band: Breitling Aerospace bracelet in titanium 18K gold, sized to fit a wrist up to approx. 7.3 inches without engaging the extension spring in the buckle which gives additional length and ease of taking on and off. Excellent condition with light hairlines on the clasp

Movement: High grade multi-function quartz, Breitling cal. 75,

Functions: Hours, Minutes, Chronograph, Quick-Set Hour, Alarm, Timer

Crown: Hermetically sealing waterproof  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Detailed Appraisal:

  • Country of origin: Switzerland

  • Date made: c. later 1990's

  • Serial no.: 22799
  • Maker: Breitling

  • Model: Navitimer Aerospace, ref. F56059L
  • Gender: Mens 

  • Movement: High Grade Multi-Function Quartz

  • Case Material: Titanium & Gold

  • Case Shape: Round

  • Case Thickness: 10.2mm

  • Case Diameter: 42mm

  • Case condition: Better than near mint with only light wear to the back from the bracelet contacting it and fairly light wear to the small gold plated rider tabs. On the wrist, it presents close to mint. It has been left in the condition that it was after filming on set.

  • Functions: Hours, Minutes, Chronograph, Quick-Set Hour, Alarm, Timer

  • Bezel: Unidirectional Rotating

  • Dial Color: Dark blue that can appear at times lighter blue through the crystal

  • Dial Markers: Luminous

  • Hands: Luminous

  • Band: Breitling Aerospace bracelet in titanium 18K gold, sized to fit a wrist up to approx. 7.3 inches without engaging the extension spring in the buckle which gives additional length and ease of taking on and off. Excellent condition with light hairlines on the clasp

  • Movement Type: Breitling 75

  • Bezel Material: Titanium and 18K Gold

  • Water Resistant: 100 meters / 330 feet

  • Crystal: Sapphire, mint condition with no scratches to the glareproofing film

  • Warranty: 1-year C.O.T. international warranty.

    Your watch is important to us, and we will take care of it for its lifetime. We provide the best after sale care in the business with an extremely experienced team of four Master Watchmakers all of whom each have over thirty-five years of experience and a large number of parts. One used to be the watchmaker for an authorized Rolex dealership and was given special training by Rolex at their Beverly Hills Service Center.
  • Box/Papers: BOX - Connoisseur of Time watch presentation box; PAPERS - Connoisseur of Time Certificate of Authenticity


100% satisfaction guarantee. If you are in any way unsatisfied with the watch we will fully refund the purchase price. Simply notify us and send it back anytime within 30 days after it has been received. Our goal is to exceed your expectations throughout the buying experience. View our feedback and shop with confidence.

 

Connoisseur of Time, Inc.
1000 Peachtree Industrial Blvd.
Suite 6-343
Suwanee, GA 30024
U.S.A.


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Contact us

Connoisseur of Time, Inc.
1000 Peachtree Industrial Blvd.
Suite 6-343
Suwanee, GA 30024
U.S.A.
 

Phone: eBay does not allow our contact information to be displayed. Please Google our name and visit our website if you would like to contact us by phone. It is listed toward the bottom of our homepage and prominently on each watch's listing page.

Hours of Operation:
Monday - Friday
10am - 4pm EST

Closed Saturdays & Sundays.

Our Selling & Shipping Information:

  • 100% satisfaction guarantee for all of our watches. If you are in any way unsatisfied with it, you are welcome to return it in the condition it was sold anytime within 30 days for a full refund of the purchase price. Our goal is to exceed your expectations throughout the buying experience. We hope you love it!

  • The water resistance of vintage watches can no longer be guaranteed and is not covered under the watch's warranty. We don't recommend getting a vintage watch wet - and really don't recommend showering or diving with it - even one that was originally designed to be waterproof.

  • We have extensive international shipping experience. In the last 12 years we have safely shipped thousands of high value watches around the world (to over 70 countries!).

  • All items are packaged very carefully and mailed in large reinforced shipping boxes appropriate for high value items so you don't need to worry about your watch arriving safely. Wait until you see how big the box is that your watch is coming in!

    (Please do remember though that while we do our very best and have careful procedures and quality control inspections - we will again fully re-test the proper functioning of your watch after you pay, right before we send it to you -
    from time to time some courier workers don't handle packages the way we think that they would want their own packages to be handled.

    Watches are ultra-precision instruments, and the timekeeping of most is governed by a small spring that is only about 1/8 the thickness of a human hair. The vast majority of our watches arrive safely and problem free. However at times vintage watches
    and their hairsprings can be sensitive to rough courier handling or just having a difficult trip to you.

    But even on a bad day there's still good news... We offer a full one-year warranty on virtually every watch we sell (unless occasionally specifically stated otherwise), so if anything happens to it in transit or goes wrong anytime in the first year, we will gladly repair it for you at no charge. Yes, even the older vintage watches. So sit back, relax, and dream about the first place where you're going to wear your new watch!

  • Our official warranty in many ways mirrors those of a number of the watch manufacturers and covers the proper timekeeping of the movement. It does not cover things like abuse, being dropped, crystals, bracelets, crowns, case parts etc. or water resistance. While we are the sole determinants of what qualifies for warranty work.... even if you have a problem that you don't think will qualify for coverage, tell us about it anyway. We are here to serve and just might be able to help you.

  • Winning bidders must fully pay within 48 hours of the end of the auction. After 48 hours the watch will be relisted.

  • To be fair to all bidders, we make it our practice not to end an auction early.

  • Because of the high rate of lost items and number of fraudulent payments, we do not sell or ship to Indonesia or Africa.

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Payment information - we accept:
  • Paypal
  • Visa, American Express, Mastercard, and Discover via eBay checkout
  • Check (We have to hold the watch until the check clears.)

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Domestic shipping is normally by FedEx Ground or USPS Express Mail. All shipments are fully insured. An estimate can be obtained by using eBay's shipping calculator found in this listing.

International shipments will sent via U.S. International Express Mail or FedEx fully insured. An estimate can be obtained by using eBay's shipping calculator found in this listing. A $5 (USD) handling fee applies to all international orders. We will e-mail the winning bidder at the end of the auction with the exact shipping cost.

The shipping cost to most countries not covered by eBay's shipping calculator is $68.90 plus insurance. Insurance charges are $1.55 for every $100 of coverage needed. This includes the following countries:

The UK, Italy, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Greece, Iceland, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Singapore, Hong Kong, and all other countries for which eBay's shipping calculator does not generate a quote.

The insurance fee for certain “high-risk” countries not in the above list is a flat rate of $50.


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