Hi Group,

I most humbly state that, I'm not putting anyone "on". I actually purchased my
Brietling Emergency chronograph at OSH 02, after lusting after one for several
years. I don't have the urge to unscrew the antenna cover to see if it works,
they give you a test box for that, actually, there are two antenna's to unscrew
and extend (for longer range).

FWIW, when you purchase a Brietling Emergency, you;
1. Have to show your Pilot Certificate to prove you're a pilot.
2. Sign a contract with Brietling that you won't use the Emergency function
except in a real emergency, thus preventing "stupid bar trick's".
3. The contract you sign also requests you have your watch serviced annually
at an authorized Brietling dealer, which is free! Free batteries for life!

Each year, Brietling sends me a Christmas card, and they send my wife a small
box of chocolates. As a small watch "collector", I think that's a nice touch,
hey Sector, Seiko, Rolex, are ya listening? I know that you can buy a lot of
cards and chocolates, or a shiney new avionics box for your airplane, for what
you pay for a Brietling. But having the piece of mind that my family can be
rescued when aviating, boating, hiking, etc., in my mind, is worth the expense.

I think of myself a real person, and I'm sure everyone in this group works very
hard for their income. During the week, I work for a company that builds
flight simulators and human centrifuges, on the weekends, I'm a skydiving
instructor. So I use my skydiving income to pay for my aviation addiction. So
essentially, except for rainy weekends, I work 7 days a week.

To put some of this "discretionary income" in perspective, I once witnessed a
Lear 35 land at Marathon, FL, not to disembark passengers, or refuel, or for
what I would consider a "normal" reason for landing, but, as they taxied to the
FBO, they radioed that they would like to borrow the courtesy car to fetch
limes from the local store. Apparently they had no limes for their
margaritas!! And there I was, counting change out of my pocket to pay for my
fuel, geezh!!

Sorry for the long post, slow day at work!

Blue skies.......

Are you ever tempted to unscrew that pop-off crown over the antenna, just
to see if it's REALLY there? That's got to be as tempting to fiddle with as
the big red button on the wall with the sign that says "Don't ever push this
button."

Not trying to pry into your personal situation, all the more power to you!,
but for years I've been trying to figure out what the heck real people do in
the world in order to earn that much "mad money" discretionary income, that
many kilobucks in the spare change fund, to be able to spend that much on a
watch?!?!?!?! Sure seems like there's a lot of you out there. LOL