By TEEEMPUS · Published
The Navitimer is the chronograph with a slide rule around its dial. Turn the notched bezel and its scale slides against a second scale on the dial, so you can multiply, divide and convert between the statute miles, nautical miles and kilometres marked on it. Breitling's Navitimer B01 Chronograph 43, reference AB0138211B1A1, sets it around a black dial with three silver counters and the AOPA wings at 12, in a 43 mm steel case on a steel bracelet. Inside is Breitling's own self-winding calibre 01, with about 70 hours of power reserve. Breitling's US site lists it at $10,700. On 9 November 2026 the same watch on a leather strap, AB0138211B1P1, was $10,300.
That's a lot of money, and the Navitimer's look is harder to find for less than most famous watches', because of the slide rule. Plenty of chronographs come with a black dial and a steel bracelet. Few made today add a slide rule that works, and fewer still pair it with the Navitimer's silver counters. So this list of watches like the Breitling Navitimer has four, not the usual seven: the four we found sold new in the US with a working slide rule, a black dial and a steel bracelet, from $210 to $8,400. Only two of them, the Sinn and the smaller Breitling, have the silver counters too.
Each one comes with what it gets wrong. Prices are regular US list prices, not sale prices, checked on 9 November 2026. Sinn doesn't sell in the US itself, so its price comes from its US importer, and its section says which. The photos are to scale, so if a watch looks smaller here, it is. The one exception is the Casio: its only photo is taken from an angle, so its size is approximate. Retailers often sell for less than the list prices here. Where we couldn't confirm that Amazon lists the exact watch, its Amazon button runs a search instead.
This is the watch every pick is measured against, the Navitimer B01 Chronograph 43, reference AB0138211B1A1:
Nothing below has all of it. Every pick has a slide rule, and they work in two ways. On the Citizen, the Sinn and the B09 you turn the bezel, as on the B01. On the Casio the scale sits on a ring inside the bezel, and Casio doesn't say how you turn it. The Sinn and the B09 have the silver counters on a black dial; the Casio and the Citizen have black counters. Only the Sinn winds itself, like the B01. The B09 is wound by hand, and the two under $1,000 run on quartz. Three of the four have a date; the B09 doesn't.
| Watch | US list price | Case | Bezel | Movement |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Casio Edifice EF-527D | $210 | 45.5 mm | Steel, slide rule on an inner ring | Quartz |
| Citizen Promaster Navihawk | $595 | 40 mm | Dark, turning slide rule | Eco-Drive quartz (B620) |
| Sinn 903 St II | $4,730 | 41 mm | Notched, turning slide rule | Automatic (LJP L110) |
| Breitling Navitimer B09 Chronograph 41 | $8,400 | 41 mm | Notched, turning slide rule | Hand-wound (Breitling B09) |
| Breitling Navitimer B01 Chronograph 43, for comparison | $10,700 | 43 mm | Notched, turning slide rule | Automatic (Breitling 01) |
Start here if you want to find out whether you'd use a slide rule before you spend thousands on one. It's the cheapest watch here: a black dial with three black counters, red accents and a date at 3, inside a notched-look steel bezel, in a steel case on a steel bracelet with a three-fold clasp. The case is 45.5 mm across, 51 mm from lug to lug and 11.4 mm thick, with a screw-down crown and caseback, and it's water resistant to 100 metres, more than the B01's 30. The stopwatch times twentieths of a second, for up to 12 hours.
Casio lists a slide rule among its features, and in its photo the scale runs around a ring just inside the bezel. Casio doesn't say how you turn it. The photo shows a second crown at 8 o'clock, and a 2013 review says that crown turns the inner ring while the bezel itself stays fixed. We couldn't confirm that with Casio.
What you give up is the Navitimer's colours. The counters are black rather than silver, the red accents make the dial busier, and the slide rule sits inside the bezel rather than on it. It runs on quartz, with a battery Casio says lasts about two years, under a mineral crystal rather than sapphire, and at 45.5 mm it's 2.5 mm wider than the B01. Its only photo is taken from an angle, so its size here is approximate. It costs $210, a fiftieth of the B01's price.
Under $1,000, this is the one we'd buy, because its slide rule works the way the Navitimer's does. Citizen describes a slide-rule scale on the bezel, and Worn & Wound, which reviewed the 40 mm Navihawk, says the bezel turns and is marked for fuel in pounds and litres. Around it are a black sunray dial with three black counters and a date window, a 40 mm steel case, faceted and satin-finished, and a three-link steel bracelet with a fold-over clasp. It's water resistant to 200 metres and has an anti-reflective sapphire crystal. Inside is Citizen's B620 Eco-Drive, a quartz movement that charges from light, and Worn & Wound says a full charge runs it for at least six months.
What you give up is the silver and the steel bezel. The counters are black, with red and white accents, and the bezel is dark rather than steel. It runs on quartz, its chronograph times fifths of a second for up to 60 minutes, against the B01's 12 hours, and at 40 mm it's 3 mm smaller. Citizen doesn't publish the thickness or the lug-to-lug length. Worn & Wound gives 13.4 mm and 44.3 mm for the Navihawk 40, though it doesn't name this reference. It costs $595, an eighteenth of the B01's price, and Citizen's US site showed it as temporarily out of stock on 9 November 2026.
If you want the Navitimer's face under another name, this is it: a black sunburst dial with three silver counters, a notched silver bezel that turns and carries a logarithmic slide-rule scale, and a steel bracelet. The steel case is 41 mm across and 14.5 mm thick, polished and satin-finished. It's the only pick that winds itself, like the B01. Inside is the LJP L110, a self-winding column-wheel chronograph with at least 60 hours of power reserve, which Sinn says is antimagnetic to the DIN 8309 standard. It's also built tougher than the B01: rated to 20 bar where the B01 is rated to 3, with a screw-down crown, a sapphire crystal that's anti-reflective on both sides and a sapphire caseback. Sinn notes that its movement details describe current production, so a watch already at a dealer may differ.
What you give up is the Breitling name and 2 mm. Sinn's logo and an Arabic 12 take the place of the AOPA wings, the date sits at 4:30 instead of 6, and the case is 41 mm against the B01's 43. Sinn doesn't publish the lug-to-lug length. Sinn's own site shows no US price, so the price here comes from WatchBuys, Sinn's importer for North America, which lists it on the bracelet at $4,730, about two fifths of the B01's price. On 10 November 2026 WatchBuys had it on a waitlist; the version on a strap was $4,310 and also on a waitlist.
Source: Sinn
Price: $4,730
If it has to say Breitling, this is the way in. The B09 41 is a Navitimer with the B01's look: a black dial with three silver counters, an Arabic 12 and Breitling's wings logo, a notched steel bezel with a slide rule that turns both ways, and a steel bracelet. Inside is Breitling's own calibre B09, with about 70 hours of power reserve, like the B01, under a cambered sapphire crystal. The steel case is 41 mm across and 13 mm thick, and it's water resistant to 30 metres, the same as the B01.
What you give up is the self-winding and the date. The B09 is wound by hand, it has no date, and at 41 mm it's 2 mm smaller than the B01. Breitling doesn't publish the lug-to-lug length or say what the caseback is. The saving is smaller than you might hope: it costs $8,400, four fifths of the B01's price.
