Breitling Montbrilliant Olympus

What if we told you there was a complicated calendar watch to be had well under $10,000? How about under $5,000? Hear us out: The Breitling Montbrilliant Olympus — and the more recent Super Chronomat — uses a little-known complication that the brand refers to as a ‘four-year calendar.’ Sitting between an annual calendar and a perpetual calendar in terms of sophistication, a four-year calendar needs adjusting once every leap year — or once every 1,461 days. (Oh, and Breitling combines it with a triple-register chronograph, just for kicks.) Pretty neat, if you ask us! Normally, this level of sophistication in a movement would cost you big-time moolah. Not so in the case of this Montbrilliant Olympus from the 2010s: Based on the famed Navitimer, it’s an incredible amount of watch for the money, as we’ll happily explain: Housed in a 42mm stainless steel case with a sapphire crystal, a signed crown, dual pump pushers, and a beaded bezel, it features a silver multi-tone dial with multiple ti