Junghans Aviator Chronoscope

I have one of these, it's up for sale incidentally but it's an awesome watch. I'm selling mine as I have the SONY Smartwatch 2 which suits my needs more but this watch not only looks good, it performs as well.

Loads of features, displays the accurate time always and alters itself in British Summertime. You wake up and it's set itself.

It's a good size and not too big, nice thickness and not too thin.

This is Junghans answer to the Breitling Aerospace and at a much much cheaper price. So is it good value for money? or should you pay out another €1,200 for the Breitling!

First some facts.

Both watches do more or less the same, accept that the Junghans has the added feature of 'synchronisation' for perfect timing, all the time. A nice feature knowing your watch is always 100% accurate.

Both watches are handsome & oversized. The Junghans is blackened steel, the Breitling Titanium. It's a personal choice. Both makes of watch offer various dial colour etc, again personal choice.

The Junghans is just below €1,000, the Breitling, €2,200 plus.

So what's in this review?

Functions & whether they work!

The Breitling works perfectly, so I'm not going to say more.

What about the much cheaper Junghans?

Well, it does and it doesn't.

It's cheaper, it looks fabulous, but the setting up, operations are complicated and not 100% reliable. I days struggling with the instructions (in English), yet still various things work, or don't really work or are more complicated than described. The handbook is confusing, so is the watch, but it looks great. I thought I'd finally mastered the beast & then yesterday, the whole LCD display vanished from sight. Could have pressed buttons forever. An hour later, mysteriously the LCD display re-appeared. This is typical of this watch. Functions are not user friendly, although they do try to be.

So, would I recommend it? Yes, providing your life wasn't programmed to its reliability to do 'what it is supposed to do'. It's cheapish for sure, but expensive for the frustrations at times.

The rest is up to you. Now you know.