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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 military watches. [1] The movement of the first Chronomat was the Venus 175 with 17 jewels, a manual winding movement. [8]
Breitling Chronomat men's watch ref. B13050 Made in Switzerland. The Chronomat is a collection from Breitling released in 1942, [10] and remains one of the best-selling models produced by the manufacturer. [11] The first Chronomat had a circular slide rule and its design was inspired by military watches. [10]
The model was heavily advertised by the Breitling Orbiter 3, with both Brian Jones and Bertrand Piccard wearing the Emergency. Breitling sponsored the Orbiter 3 project, [4] which in 1999 became the first balloon to completely orbit the Earth without landing. A commemorative Orbiter 3 version of the Emergency watch was subsequently produced ...
In 1961, Scott Carpenter, one of the original astronauts in the Mercury space program, tasked Breitling with incorporating a 24-hour dial instead of the normal 12-hour dial, due to lack of day and night in space travel. Breitling produced the 24-hour Navitimer, which Carpenter wore on his 1962 space flight.
Breitling may refer to: Breitling (Warnow), a bay at the mouth of the River Warnow in the Baltic; Breitling (Bay of Wismar), a bay between the mainland and the Baltic Sea island of Poel; Breitling SA, a Swiss watch manufacturer; Breitlingsee, a lake in Brandenburg, Germany; Breitling Jet Team, a civilian aerobatic display team in Europe ...
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 .
Léon Breitling (27 January 1860 – 11 August 1914) was a Swiss watchmaker and a businessman, who founded the watch manufacturing company Breitling SA in Saint-Imier in 1884. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Career overview
Breitling Superocean is a collection of luxury dive watches manufactured by independent watchmaker Breitling SA. [1] The first SuperOcean was introduced in 1957, [ 2 ] and had water resistance of 200m, while later models have 1,000m to 2,000m of water resistance .