SuperOcean Automatic 36 Stainless Steel / Ice Blue / Bucherer

In Context

At 36 mm it is classically proportioned: the size a dress watch was understood to be for most of the twentieth century, and small enough to sit under a cuff. At 12.2 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. Its 38-hour reserve wants wearing most days; leave it off and it stops. At 28,800 vph the seconds hand advances 8 times a second.

A173771A1C1S1 stands on its own in this catalogue — no other reference here shares its base number. It pairs a blue matte dial with a ceramic, stainless steel case.

The Caliber 17 ND is the no-date version of Breitling's Caliber 17, an ETA 2824-2 finished to chronometer standard without the date disc. It powers 116 watches in this library. Removing the date does not change the movement's architecture, but it changes the dial: no window, no phantom position on the crown, and a cleaner face for the vintage-styled and smaller models. The base keeps the 2824's 28,800 vph, 38-hour reserve and 25 jewels, at 25.6 mm across, and every one is COSC-certified. ETA or Sellita supply the base depending on the year. The library finds it in two collections. The [Superocean](/brands/breitling/superocean) accounts for 60 references, the 36 mm, 42 mm and 44 mm Superocean Automatics of 2019 onward, and the [Navitimer](/brands/breitling/navitimer) for 56, the 35 mm, 36 mm, 38 mm and 41 mm three-hand Navitimers that carry the slide-rule bezel without a chronograph. The 35 mm case is the most common at 34 references, then 36 mm, 42 mm and 44 mm; 20 of the 116 are limited editions. The [Caliber 17](/calibers/breitling-caliber-17) is the same movement with the date, and the [Caliber 10](/calibers/breitling-caliber-10) the thinner alternative in the Chronomat 36.

115 other watches in the library run the Breitling Caliber 17 ND.

Breitling

SuperOcean Automatic 44 Stainless Steel / Black / UK

A173762B1B2A1 · 44 mm

Breitling

SuperOcean Automatic 42 Stainless Steel / Sylt Edition

A173759A1C1S1 · 42 mm

Breitling

SuperOcean Automatic 42 Stainless Steel / Black - Rainbow / Rubber

A17375211B2S3 · 42 mm

Breitling

SuperOcean Automatic 42 Stainless Steel / Black - Rainbow / Rubber

A17375211B2S4 · 42 mm