Today's offering 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:
https://shop.connoisseuroftime.com/collections/our-celebrity-owned-historical-event-watches?page=1&sort_by=created-descending
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Country of origin: Switzerland
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Date made: c. later 1990's
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Serial no.: 22799
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Maker: Breitling
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Model: Navitimer Aerospace, ref. F56059L
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Gender: Mens
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Movement: High Grade Multi-Function Quartz
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Case Material: Titanium & Gold
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Case Shape: Round
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Case Thickness: 10.2mm
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Case Diameter: 42mm
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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.
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Functions: Hours, Minutes, Chronograph, Quick-Set Hour, Alarm, Timer
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Bezel: Unidirectional Rotating
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Dial Color: Dark blue that can appear at times lighter blue through the crystal
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Dial Markers: Luminous
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Hands: Luminous
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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
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Movement Type: Breitling 75
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Bezel Material: Titanium and 18K Gold
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Water Resistant: 100 meters / 330 feet
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Crystal: Sapphire, mint condition with no scratches to the glareproofing film
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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.
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Box/Papers: BOX - Connoisseur of Time watch presentation box; PAPERS - Custom printed Connoisseur of Time Certificate of Authenticity
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Returns: 7 days full refund. 100% satisfaction guarantee