Some specs:
40mm stainless steel case
Manual wind Venus 178 movement
The Breitling AOPA Navitimer 806 remains near the top of virtually every vintage watch collectors wish list.
The Breitling AOPA Navitimer 806 internal rotating bezel is a slide-rule navigation computer which makes complex mathematical calculations useful to pilots.
Jerry Seinfeld, Graham Hill, Jim Clark, Miles Davis all wear (or wore) a Breitling Navitimer 806 with black & white dial.
The Breitling AOPA Navitimer 806 Chosen as the official timepiece of AOPA, Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association. Something which Breitling has traded on ever since.
A 24-hour dial version, the Cosmonaute, was also produced in the early 60s.
The first generation Navitimer 806 came in the early 50s, they had Arabic numerals, black dials and sub-dials.
The second generation shows silver sub-dials and index instead of numbers. I believe a very undervalued watch considering its important hostory, brand and case size.
Many early Navitimers didn’t have the Breitling logo but the AOPA wing on the dial.
806 Early 1960s Version
After about eight years Breitling once again changed the dial layout of the Navitimer, likely adapting to changing tastes and increasing legibility in low-light conditions. The now-iconic “reverse panda” configuration with black dial and white subdials is introduced in 1963. For one year, the “reverse panda” dial remained in the earlier 806 case with a beaded bezel (93 beads for these two iterations). The handset was also updated from luminous, syringe-style hands to arrow-tipped baton hands
This example`s serial number places it being made around 1964 with an Mk 4 dial and still with the older and rarer beaded bezel from the Mk3 which was not uncommon at the time.
Condition is fantastic!! Case is in amazing condition and dial is all original.
