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Products. Wristwatches. Owner. Partners Group. Website. breitling.com. Breitling SA ( German pronunciation: [ˈbraɪtlɪŋ]) is a Swiss luxury watchmaker founded in 1884 in Saint-Imier, Switzerland, by Léon Breitling. The company is known for its precision-made chronometers designed for aviators and is based in Grenchen, Switzerland.
The Breitling Emergency is a luxury watch produced by Breitling SA. It contains a radio transmitter for civil aviation use, which broadcasts on the 121.5 MHz distress frequency and serves as a backup for ELT -type airborne beacons. [1] For military users, the Emergency has a miniaturized transmitter operating on the 243.0 MHz military aviation ...
The Chronomat was a patented design introduced in 1940 by Willy Breitling and the world's first two-pusher chronograph wristwatch. [6] [7] Breitling Chronomat men's watch ref. B13050 Made in Switzerland. The first model of the Chronomat collection had a circular slide rule and its design followed the appeal and design cues of the era for ...
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Léon Breitling was born in 1860. His interest in watchmaking started at a very young age leading young Léon to initiate his first internship still as a teenager, a pursuit which would change the course of his life. In 1884 at the age of 24 years old he established his first business venture, the watchmaking company "G Leon Breitling" in Saint ...
In the 1940s, Breitling added a circular slide rule to the bezel of its Chronomat models. This bezel became most associated with the Navitimer, launched in 1954. [1] The name Navitimer comes from two words were used to describe its purpose: Navigation and Timer. [2] During the 1950s and 1960s, a version of the Navitimer was offered by the ...
Breitling Top Time is a COSC -certified chronograph introduced in 1964 by Swiss watch brand Breitling SA. The watch appeared in the 1965 James Bond movie Thunderball: Bond is given a Breitling Top Time which contains a geiger counter to track down two stolen nuclear warheads. After the movie was filmed, the watch disappeared and later ...
An automatic watch, also known as a self-winding watch or simply an automatic, is a mechanical watch where the natural motion of the wearer provides energy to wind the mainspring, making manual winding unnecessary if worn enough. [1] It is distinguished from a manual watch in that a manual watch must have its mainspring wound by hand at regular ...