Got a Valhalla? If not, you’ll need to sort that out first, because Breitling’s two new Super Chronomat references, the Automatic 38 and the B19 44 Perpetual Calendar, are only available to Aston Martin’s hyper car owners, commissioned through a dedicated configurator that lets them match the watch to their own car’s spec.
This isn’t the first time the two brands have worked together. Breitling became Aston Martin’s official watch partner at the start of the year, and they already have a handful of collaborations under their belts. They’ve previously paid tribute to the Aston Martin DB5 and made a Navitimer for the Aston Martin Aramco Formula One team. Now it’s the Valhalla’s turn – Aston Martin’s first series-production, mid-engine plug-in hybrid hyper car that pairs a 4.0-litre twin-turbo V8 with three electric motors for 1,079PS, enough to hit 62mph in 2.5 seconds and keep going to 217mph.
It’s a ridiculous piece of kit, so let’s look at the watches made to accompany a car named after the hall were fallen Viking warriors feast for eternity.
Breitling Super Chronomat B19 44 Perpetual Calendar Chronograph
If you’re going to be competing with a hyper car for attention, there’s no point taking half-measures. A perpetual calendar feels fitting here: it’s among the most complex complications you can get, putting it on comparable footing with the Valhalla. In practice, it means the watch tracks months, leap years and moonphases while accounting for the calendar’s quirks without you ever having to step in and correct it. It’s a chronograph too, which is where the motorsport link really lives.
The dial is carbon fibre, which makes sense as the Valhalla is covered in lashings of it and carbon has become shorthand for where car and watch design meet. The sapphire crystal above is glare-proofed on both sides, so the dial stays legible even under the harsh sunlight of the open road.
That dial sits inside a 44mm titanium case, with a black ceramic insert on the unidirectional bezel. The crown is screw-locked with two gaskets, so water resistance lands at a respectable 200 metres, more than you’d expect from a watch whose natural habitat is a driver’s seat rather than open water.
Turn it over and there’s a display caseback showing off the black rotor, which can be personally engraved. There’s further personalisation beyond that: four colour options for the flange and hands (Aston Martin Racing Green, Trophy Silver, Vivid Gold and Lime Green) and six for the counter hands, which swaps in Valkyrie Gold instead of Vivid Gole while adding Vivid Orange and Rosso Corsa red as options too. This is where you can really play: match the flange to your interior stitching, or the counter hands to your brake calipers. Against all that black carbon and ceramic, it’s the colour that gives the watch its personality.
Inside is Breitling’s in-house Caliber 19, an automatic perpetual calendar chronograph with a 96-hour power reserve and COSC certification. As a perpetual calendar, it won’t need correcting until 2100 so long as you keep it wound.
The Valhalla Super Chronomat B19 44 Perpetual Calendar Chronograph comes on a titanium-steel Rouleaux bracelet or a black Rouleaux-inspired rubber strap. It’s priced at £52,000 (though there’s the £850,000 car to buy first).
Price and Specs:
Breitling Super Chronomat Automatic 38
This is the smaller, simpler of the two Breitling Valhalla watches. 38mm in stainless steel against the B19’s 44mm titanium, a significant drop in size. That’s down to the perpetual calendar being swapped out for a three-hand display with a date at 6 o’clock.
At the same time that the size is reduced, the bezel is now set with lab-grown diamonds, produced to the SCS-007 sustainability standard. It shares the B19’s carbon fibre dial, so while the diamonds dress it up, the carbon keeps one foot in the pit lane. It’s probably the one you’d reach for if you were driving the Valhalla to a black-tie dinner rather than a track day.
Personalisation is simpler too. Just the four colourways for the flange and hands as there are no counter hands to play with, so there’s less room to tailor it than on the Perpetual Calendar.
This reference opts for a screw-down caseback engraved with the Aston Martin logo as standard, which can also be personally engraved. Personally, it’s not quite as cool as the B19’s engraved rotor. Additionally, water resistance halves to 100 metres here, though that’s still enough for everyday wear.
Powering it is the self-winding Breitling 17, good for 38-hours off the wrist and COSC-certified like its bigger sibling. The bracelet choice carries over from the B19 too, just with stainless steel in place of titanium on the Rouleaux, or you can go for the black rubber strap instead.
Despite its diamond bezel, the Valhalla Super Chronomat Automatic 38 is the more affordable of the two watches at £22,000, which does make sense as it’s competing against a perpetual calendar. It’s not often that you can describe a £22,000 watch as affordable but compared to the car and perpetual calendar it’s keeping company with, it almost feels like pocket change.
Whichever version you go for, five years’ membership to Breitling’s new Social Club comes with it. Though you’ll have to wait for the clubhouse to open in Williamsburg, New York, in late 2027.
Price and Specs:
More details at Breitling.
