Breitling, Audemars Piguet, Girard-Perregaux: Early Holiday Ideas for the “Watch Guy” in Your Life

• • Labor Day is long gone; the holidays are upon us once again…

• • A luxury watch is the ultimate holiday gift for the “watch guy” in your life.

• • watchuwant.com is the world leader in luxury watches at substantial discounts from MSRP.

• • Our inventory of luxury watches from Breitling, Audemars Piguet, and others is unrivaled.

• • watchuwant.com is your destination for painless early holiday shopping.

• • Contact our watch sales professionals for guidance and shopping insights.

It looms like a glacier: massive, daunting, and unstoppable. The holidays. Again.

An enterprising watchmaker should highlight the year’s final four months on a perpetual calendar dial, if only to remind us that these holiday hunting season now opens the minute Labor Day ends.

But watchuwant.com is ready rock your Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa/Festivus with gift ideas that will dazzle the watch guy in your life.

watchuwant.com’s luxury watch experts have combed our collection of premium timepieces, and we’re pleased to present three premier luxury watches that are guaranteed to enchant this holiday season – and for many to come.

The Breitling Old Navitimer II may as well be called “Main Event,” because contemporary Breitling likely wouldn’t exist without the image and credibility that this quintessential pilot’s watch brings to the brand.

While Breitling’s reputation for pilot’s watches is second-to-none among modern luxury watchmakers, and the Navitimer was the seed of the Breitling renaissance. Since the watchmaker’s 1970s near-death experience and 1982 reboot, the contemporary Avengers, Chronomats, Aerospaces, and Emergencies have followed in the footsteps of Breitling’s image-defining Navitimer.

This Old Navitimer II is a modern tribute to the original Breitling “cockpit computer” from 1952.

That model, the very first Navitimer, also was the first wristwatch to include a complete circular slide rule in the bezel. Billed as a mechanical computer with the versatility to handle every conceivable navigation and fuel calculation, the watch also incorporated a full three-register chronograph for timing key intervals.

Breitling’s Old Navitimer II recalls the style of its trailblazing forebear with a simulated patina “dirty dial” and an exact replica of the original slide rule bezel. A black leather strap with contrasting white stitching for an authentic vintage vibe.

Inside, a modern COSC-chronometer chronograph movement provides timing that surpasses the accuracy of the original, and robust sapphire crystal ensures that the Old Navitimer II resists scratches better than frail true vintage models.

watchuwant.com is pleased to offer this outstanding example of a Breitling icon with a factory box set and documentation of recent movement service with a one-year warranty.

While the Navitimer is Breitling’s corporate icon, the Royal Oak is the franchise player at Audemars Piguet.

And while the Navitimer is a definite pro-baller, being the main event at AP is like playing quarterback for the Cowboys. It’s kind of a big deal.

The Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Chronograph combines the best of the legendary Royal Oak with a chronograph timer of the highest order. Like every Royal Oak, the chronograph traces its lineage to the 1972 original; it was a watch that redefined the luxury sports timepiece.

By combining stainless steel with super premium finish and a price tag to match, AP and design maverick Gerald Genta created a sensation that changed the industry

AP’s Royal Oak Chronograph embodies all of the audacity that made the original an icon. Each corner of the highly-articulated case is polished to a mirror shine or straight-grained finish; the signature white gold bolts gleam within the bezel.

Genta’s famous “integrated” bracelet blends organically into the lugs of the case and is itself a masterclass in top-shelf metalwork.

As a Royal Oak rotates through the light, its gem-like array of facets catch the rays and explode with radiance. A rich blue “grand tapisserie” guilloché dial with contrasting print and applied white gold indexes, sub-dial frames, and hands completes the image of elegance.

This is a watch whose quality is self evident, and it will appeal equally to the “watch guy” in your life and casual admirers alike.

But the AP Royal Oak Chronograph also offers first-class watchmaking tech.

Inside, an F. Piguet chronograph movement provides accurate timing and a seamless start/stop/reset action. The F. Piguet movement is regarded as one of the most important, refined, and innovative achievements in late twentieth century horology, so this Royal Oak is as beautiful on the inside as it is on the outside.

Audemars Piguet’s style standout is available from watchuwant.com in outstanding condition with original Audemars Piguet outer and inner presentation boxes.

While Audemars Piguet and Breitling cover the interests of most connoisseurs, there are those who row to a different fife. Their tastes are impeccable and their standards are high, but these “watch guys” revel in rarity, cult models, and “secret handshake” brands.

If this sounds like your watch guy, look no further than the Girard-Perregaux ww.tc Worldtime Financial chronograph.

Able to design, build, and finish almost every component of a complete watch, Girard-Perregaux is a brand for true aficionados of high horology. The GP WW.TC World Time Chronograph embodies all of this standout brand’s savoir-fair and flare for blue-sky engineering.

GP packs a catalog of complications into the Worldtime Financial’s 43mm steel case. A world time function is the standout feature, and true to its name, the “Financial” model highlights the daily business windows of the world’s four financial capitals: London, New York, Tokyo, and Hong Kong.

In addition to the markets’ local times, the Girard-Perregaux Worldtime complication permits simultaneous viewing of the hour in any of the world’s 24 time zones.

Far more than a world time watch, the ww.tc Worldtime Financial is a chronograph with a date, day/night indication, and automatic winding. All functions are powered by a Girard-Perregaux exclusive movement that can be viewed through the sapphire display caseback.

Dyed-in-the-wool “watch guys” harbor special affection for watchmakers that own the know-how to build their own movements, and the ww.tc Worldtime Financial encapsulates an exquisite example of such mechanical mastery at its finest.

This Girard-Perregaux ww.tc Worldtime Financial chrongraph is available from watchuwant.com with a full factory set of boxes, accessories, and original documentation.

Not only does this Girard-Perregaux boast a pedigree, but our thoroughbred example even includes “full papers.”

If you know your man and your man knows his watches, there’s no better early holiday shopping destination than watchuwant.com.

While shopping for an expert can be a challenge, we make shopping for the perfect watch easier than writing a letter to Santa – and we’re far better at follow-ups than our North Pole counterpart.

Contact our team of luxury watch specialists to find the perfect holiday gift for your “watch guy.”