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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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A diving watch, also commonly referred to as a diver's or dive watch, is a watch designed for underwater diving that features, as a minimum, a water resistance greater than 1.1 MPa (11 atm), the equivalent of 100 m (330 ft). The typical diver's watch will have a water resistance of around 200 to 300 m (660 to 980 ft), though modern technology ...
A mechanical watch is a watch that uses a clockwork mechanism to measure the passage of time, as opposed to quartz watches which function using the vibration modes of a piezoelectric quartz tuning fork, or radio watches, which are quartz watches synchronized to an atomic clock via radio waves. A mechanical watch is driven by a mainspring which ...
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 ...
The Illinois Watch Company was founded on December 23, 1870, in Springfield, Illinois, by John C. Adams, John Whitfield Bunn (1831–1920), and various additional financiers. Twenty years later, Jacob Bunn Jr., (1864–1926) took over and ran the company until his death in 1926. The Bunn family surname was used in their most famous railroad ...