Born in 1957, the Breitling Superocean Heritage has continued to be a staple of the Breitling collection. The modern interpretation of the classic watch now has a standard ceramic bezel in all of it’s timepieces. This brings a scratch and fade resistant design that will help your watch hold up longer. As with most families within the Breitling watch collection, the versatility of style that the Superocean Heritage brings is vast and wide.

With a highly refined look, at first glance the Superocean Heritage looks anything like your typical dive watch. However, it brings all of the water resistant capabilities of those in the category, boasting 200m or 660ft of water resistance with a screw-locked crown. With two gaskets on the crown, when screwed-in you can be sure that no water will get into your watch at the proper depths.

It also has a unidirectional ratcheted rotating bezel so that you can accurately time how long you’ve been under water. Every timepiece in this range also has a small date window at the 3 o’clock, in between 4 and 5 o’clock, or the six o’clock.

How do I know which one carries an in-house automatic movement?

Thankfully, Breitling has continued to simplify and address this often asked question. In the Superocean Heritage range any watch with a chronograph that has tone on tone sub-dials is what Breitling refers to as a “Modified Swiss watch movement.” This means that it does not have an in-house automatic movement.

Another quick tip, any watch that has two letters before the model number is an in-house movement. There are also no quartz movements in this collection.

Watch sizes and your wrist- Which is right for you?

One thing about jewelry and watches is that it’s all about what style you’re comfortable with. We do have some recommendations for you though when it comes to millimeter size.

The 42mm, 3 hand models are great for those fashionista women who want an oversized look on a Ladies Watch or for gentleman with slimmer wrists. This is especially the case with a rubber strap. While the 46mm is right on the edge of the largest of Breitling timepieces made.The 44mm timepieces are a great in-between size and feature modified swiss movements. These can be paired with the elegant stainless steel bracelet, rubber straps or on certain limited production models fabric straps are available.