Breitling Cal 69

Breitling Caliber 69

Breitling Cal 69

BrandBreitling
Caliber Number69
Base CaliberFrédéric Piguet 1271
TypeQuartz (mechaquartz)
Diameter27.60mm
Thickness6.10mm
Battery Cell Number394
Claimed Battery Life4-5 yrs
Jewels23
Finish
Rhodium
FunctionsHours, minutes, chronograph seconds, 1/10 seconds, 60 seconds, 30 minutes, 12 hour, add and split chrono functions
Country
Switzerland
Known Models
Chronoracer Rattrapanté (A69048)

The Breitling caliber 69 is a rare mecaquartz movement found in the Chronoracer Rattrapanté model (Ref: A69048). This movement was in watches that were sold around 2000 to 2002.

This caliber is based off the Frederic Piguet caliber 1271. It is a hybrid mechanical/quartz movement. It gets power via the battery cell, but the rattrapante complication is mechanical. This caliber also utilizes a mechanical vertical clutch column wheel for the chronograph function.

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Kalvin
Kalvin
5 years ago

Very rare indeed. Also found in the Chrono Avenger Sixty Nine A69360. They only made 600 of them and I stupidly sold one.

Don
Don
5 years ago

This is might be my quartz grail

Lord Cutglass
Lord Cutglass
5 years ago

I love the accuracy of the quartz main movement as I’m fed up with having to regularly reset automatics. The immediacy of the chrono reset, the feel of the pushers, and the smooth sweep of the chrono seconds hand are also very much to my taste.

Marcus
Marcus
5 years ago

If all quartz watches were like this then I would have more quartz watches.

SM
SM
2 years ago

I still have mine which I got in 2003 full set with receipt. Time flies.

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