After a rubbish year the wife and I had a weekend away in Wales near Swansea. Did a bit of shopping, well, most of the xmas shopping actually and for once the wife didn't drag me away, rolling her eyes, from the watch shop windows I tend to loiter round when i find them.
In fact she drags me in and gets me to try a few on, then promptly produces a credit card and buys me this - sorry for the ropey iPhone shot.
I've wobbled over Breitling in the past for all the usual reasons, marmite looks, precipitous depreciation, usually eta movements but this seems to address all of these issues for me. A (kind of) in house movement, classic looks, depreciation I can overlook as the watch was bought for a reason, will be being engraved at some point and then handed down to one of my kids at some point so resale is not an issue. The thing is all that was forgotten when it went on my wrist, it just felt right and still does.