Yeay! :)
0:09 in you can pause and get a tiny glimpse! :laugh:
I love how at 0:13 it looks like he's already landed. :D
Sounds interesting anyway, not that I'll be buying it.
From their website.
April 24th apparently (and am #emergency2 hash tag for twitterers)
They will no doubt have added a number of aesthetically unpleasing new design elements to it, e.g. pinstripes and circles/squares texturing on the dial, crazily large numbers and general clutter/busyness, a bezel featuring a pointless scale (i.e. degrees instead of minutes), more shiny bling and less luminous paint, horrible fonts, weird antique style chapter ring and an unnecessarily huge case. All of which will give the watch an identity crisis - part practical, part fashion victim, part dress watch.
Maybe I'm being too cynical but they are increasingly putting out real dogs dinners these days, as are many other top brands. My prediction is that the new model will have a few features that people really want but will leave people wishing that they had just added them to the old classy, understated design.
I know where they're going with this, unfortunately :
It's fashionable to slam many brands for not making the simple and more elegant watches that they used to, but the fact it, people don't want them. If people want large, bling and flash, manufacturers would be negligent in their duties to the people who own them if they did not sit down and curl them out. So some "blame" for this erosion of class should be directed at the demand, not just the supply.
...but what do I know; I don't even like watches!
11K RRP though :(
I was very excited about this until I read £11k... is this definite?!
Looks like a Ti finish like the last one. I'm just hoping for more features such as an EL light if ana\digi and better water resistance.
I've heard it's an absolute beast... 49mm.
11K is what I've heard. Seems about double what it should be to me.
will it transmit on the new frequency or continue to work on the previously used frequency i wonder.
are there any stories of anyone being rescued due to their breitling emergency?
The only things I would change on my current model Emergency are:
Better WR
Backlit LCDs
406Mhz ELT
That last one seems impossible to me though unless they make it substantially bigger. A 406MHz ELT would also need GPS as the whole ideal behind them is they are no longer a simple homing beacon but transmit your current location to satellites so rescuers know exactly where to find you. If they've simply made a more bling version of the old model to appeal to the highstreet buyer, I won't be bothering to upgrade. Hopefully they'll surprise me.
A point lost on most WISes, or indeed, almost anybody else who reads an internet thread and proves again that a little bit of knowledge is more dangerous than a lot!
For the hard of understanding : An Emergency can't reach a satellite. It's too small. It's a homing beacon only. So it's irrelevant that satellites stopped monitoring 121.5 years ago, and they won't pick up an Emergency broadcasting on any other frequency either. I'm not even in SAR, but I found this simple enough to understand!
...but what do I know; I don't even like watches!
Hope this works .. but apparently a leak of the new watch, caught at a meeting @ Breitling.
(may have been an April fools, but looks fairly genuine when compared with the pics above)
http://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid...32650476760454
(Link got from a thread on Breitling Source, about the new Emergency)
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Could be I suppose. Not sure I like the fussiness of it though. Seems like they've added in a load of unnecessary crap. LCDs look the same as the current one too but I guess could be backlit like the current Aerospace. Still awaiting some info from one of my contacts about the transmitter though.
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So, we'll know more tomorrow I guess. Any final predictions?
I don't think I could ever own one of these, or the emergency 1. I'd have to pull the bloody thing out!!!!
http://www.breitling.com/emergency/
First impression - ugly.
Only 5 bar water resistance.
Not sure about backlight. It's not mentioned on the website
I love it, especially with the black dial, but as above, the WR (and possibly size) kills it for me at the moment.
Bloody hell thats a big-un!
"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action."
"You gotta know when to hold em and know when to fold em".
I do like that and 50M WR isn't that bad. I know I will never go down that deep. I think when I dived once I went to 12 metres and that was deep enough for me.
It looks good, but... at 51mm, surely it's about 6mm too big..!?
Look for the wrist shot in the presentation video, proper clowns watch.
The yellow one has my name on it. not for the girly wristed.
Perfect for "Emergency" trips to the pub to show it off!
I read somewhere that Breitling claimed 20-odd people had been pinpointed after activating the homing beacon inside. However, it is well known that 99% of buyers are internet geeks, bankers, management consultants etc.
...but what do I know; I don't even like watches!
Pah! its not so big for us Deepsea, Ploprof guys
I thought I was off Breitling these days, but I'll be having that yellow one for sure!
Disapointing, could have been so much better.
Comes with a re-chargable battery and a mains powered charger, but they don't say how often you have to plug it in to the mains?, kinda makes it useless for long periods out in the wilderness.
Not as bad as expected but way too large (for me at least)...
I wonder if this is still for "aeronautical emergencies" only as it's said for the Emergency? Either way, if I was in /real/ emergency I'd pull the antenna of my Emergency anyway :-D
I think the size will be down to the fact they've managed to squeeze a 406MHz transmitter in there. That's a seriously impressive feat considering the power they require (which is why it has that Li-Ion battery). I'd have to see one in the metal but I fear it'll be too big for my wrist which can only just pull off the Emergency 1...
Retails for £12,040 (on bracelet) and the diver pro III with clasp is £11,310.
Wow!
Seems to me that they have fallen into the convergence trap. This is neither a good watch or a good emergency beacon (short battery life, no GPS receiver?).
For me the whole point of the Emergency was to have an emergency beacon with you at all times, because you never know when an emergency is gonna happen.
However, this watch is so damn big and garish I wouldn't want to wear it all the time, and if it has to spend any significant time in its charger then its not on my wrist anyway, therefore its not doing its job.
Hahaha, for a 51mm Quartz watch, with a feature you'll never need.....that is the top of ridiculous....I am sure EPIRB with GPS, costing around 1k is surely more interesting than a so called Emergency watch
http://www.kannadmarine.com/en/produ...epirb-with-gps
12k?? Ok I retract my previous statement about wanting a yellow one - that's beyond ridiculous.
However; a potential emergency sitiation needing an individual homing beacon is not all that unpredictable for all but the exception. Most of us live in densily inhabited parts of he world ánd have gsm with us.
The gsm btw is a véry good alternative for a homing beacon as even without coverage the emergency number call is recognised by several other receivers.
It simply is not a relevant risc for the vast mayority of us.
For the exception; take a proper gps alarm thing with panic button with you. Those are as small as a gsm.