Galactic 41 Stainless Steel / Horizon Blue / Sahara

In Context

At 41 mm it is sized to the current mainstream: 40 mm is the median across every watch measured in this catalogue. At 14 mm it is a tall case, and it will catch on a cuff. The case back is closed, so the movement stays out of sight, and the sapphire crystal will resist everything short of deliberate abuse. 300 m is a professional diving rating, far past any demand a wrist is likely to make of it.

The movement winds itself from the motion of your wrist. 42 hours of reserve carries it overnight, but not through a weekend in a drawer. At 28,800 vph the seconds hand advances 8 times a second.

A49350L2.C929.219X stands on its own in this catalogue — no other reference here shares its base number. It pairs a blue dial with a stainless steel case.

The Caliber 49 is Breitling's big-date automatic, an ETA 2896 finished and certified by Breitling. It is inside 142 watches in this library, all of them 41 mm Galactics and Cockpits. The 2896 is the 2892 with a large double-disc date added, so the two digits sit side by side in a wide window rather than on one small disc. That is the point of the movement: the Galactic 41 shows the date at 12 o'clock in a way a standard date disc cannot. The base keeps the 2892's 28,800 vph and 42-hour reserve, at 25.6 mm across and 4.85 mm high, and every Caliber 49 is COSC-certified. In the library it powers 132 [Galactic 41](/brands/breitling/galactic) references and 10 Cockpits, every one of them a 41 mm case, most in steel and many with diamond bezels. It is a movement for exactly one watch design, and the count reflects how many dial and bezel variants that design ran to. The [Caliber 10](/calibers/breitling-caliber-10) is the same 2892 base without the big date, the [Caliber 37](/calibers/breitling-caliber-37) the small-seconds version in the Galactic 36, and the [ETA 2892 piece](/blog/the-eta-2892) explains why so many maisons build on that base.

141 other watches in the library run the Breitling Caliber 49.

Breitling

Galactic 41 Stainless Steel / Rose Gold / Metallica Blue / Teju

C49350L2.C810.143Z · 41 mm

Breitling

Galactic 41 Stainless Steel / Rose Gold / Sierra Silver / Croco

C49350L2.G701.722P · 41 mm

Breitling

Galactic 41 Stainless Steel / Diamond / Tomcat Gray / Bracelet

A49350LA.F549.366A · 41 mm

Breitling

Galactic 41 Stainless Steel / Diamond / Sierra Silver / Calf

A49350LA.G699.425X · 41 mm