Mind boggling to see (and remember) the prices asked for these NOS Breitlings, and then imagine the prices that we might expect for a trove of NOS Heuers from this era. I recall a dealer in Texas who had six or eight "Viceroy" style Autavias, still in their (cigar) boxes. Four or five years ago, these were sold in the $4,000 range.

What if these had been Heuer Chronomatics? Oh my . . . difficult to imagine!!

Jeff

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: Hi Darwin,
: I, too was not real impressed with the 7103 case style. A bit too
: chunky and clumsy looking IMHO. I considered buying the black
: dialed version from Old World Jewelers a few times but never did
: due to the nagging feeling it might not get much wrist time due
: to its chunkiness. I did like the 2105 Superocean "fired
: egg" (as Alex calls the big 47.5mm cased Breitlings) and
: finally pulled the trigger on one of those in 2007 when OWJ
: found a few more samples (and raised the price a bit too, lol).
: I also bought a Datora (2034) because I liked the relatively
: simple (for a Breitling) chrono dial and easy to read wide,
: white hands. I am amazed their stock of this NOS collection
: lasted as long as it did. Other than the 8803, 7808 and 809
: Cosmonaut, these watches were a great bargain with all being
: less than $2000 USD, and several under $1000 USD. They all still
: had the purple seal with model number on the caseback and were
: pristine.
: Steve