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Breitling Top Time

to see Breitling ditching the bling with watches such as the new-generation Top Time models. But Breitling wasn’t always about shiny things; back in the 1960s and ’70s the Grenchen-based maker was producing some proper, understated, classical chronographs. The original Top Times, intended to be a cheaper way into owning a Breitling, are

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