New Breitling Navitimer employs a Perpetual Calendar complication.

It's the first model in the permanent collection to use the B19 movement.

Lovers of the best watches on the market can rarely agree on much. It's part of the charm, really – if everyone loved the same things, it would be a much more boring industry.

Still, every now and again, the collective wisdom agrees on something. Often, that centres around love for a particular complication or style of watch – like the perpetual calendar complication.

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That's widely regarded as a triumph – keep the movement wound and the mechanism will accurately keep not just the time, but the day, date and month. They even take leap years into account – it's a seriously impressive feat.

That's why Breitling's new Navitimer B19 Chronograph Perpetual Calendar is such an impressive thing. Based on a rose gold piece crafted for the brand's 140th anniversary last year, the new model makes use of the Same Breitling Calibre B19 inside.

That's a COSC-certified, 4HZ movement with around 96 hours of power reserve on offer – a stat made even more impressive when you consider the sheer volume of complications it powers. On this dial, you'll find a moonphase, complications for the date, the month and the day, a leap year indicator and a full chronograph. It's absolutely magnificent.