Breguet

tim5
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One of my favorites

Very fond of the 3237 (and the similar 5237), probably the nicest HW chrono this side of Lange. Much nicer than Breguet's newer versions of essentially the same watch, which are unnecessarily big and often have unnecessarily busy dials. Also much nicer than Patek's 5070, which has essentially the same movement, and, to me, is absurdly large and has too-small clock hands compared to the oversized, borderline-silly dial. Why the street price of the 5070 is 5x the price of this watch is completely beyond me; the newer Breguet HW chronos are also a poor value compared to this guy, I think. You hit a home run here, congrats.
As far as the serial # goes, good luck with that. You can google around, apparently the digits run from something like 500-5500 and they click to the next letter. Breguet probably won't tell you exactly when this was produced. This whole production-year secrecy business is absurd, most prominent example probably being Rolex's switch to random serial #s (in 2010, I think it was). Why don't manufacturers want people to know when their watch was made? Too bad this exquisite watch didn't come with papers.