Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Astronaut Scott Carpenter wearing a Breitling Cosmonaute inside the Aurora 7 spacecraft, May 24, 1962. Breitling SA was founded in Saint-Imier by Léon Breitling in 1884. [1] When Breitling died in 1914, the business passed to his son, Gaston, and then to his grandson, Willy, in 1935. Willy's children, however, were not interested in pursuing ...
Breitling proceeded to produce a commercial version of the 24-hour version, the Cosmonaute Navitimer, with both Breitling and AOPA logos. [ 3 ] The first automatic Navitimer chronograph was introduced to the public in 1969; its movement was co-developed by Breitling, Dubois-Depraz, Heuer , and Hamilton .
L. Breitling founded his manufacture producing complicated watches, chronographs and chronometric instruments. [4] In 1892, Léon Breitling moved his company to La Chaux-de-Fonds to larger production facilities, renaming the brand "Leon G. Breitling Montbrillant SA Watch Factory" and eventually growing the business to 60 employees. [5]
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 and Poster acquired the Golden Nugget properties in June 2003 for $215 million; their running of the casino was the subject of the reality television show The Casino. In September 2005, they sold the Golden Nugget for approximately $340 million. Breitling has published his autobiography, Double or Nothing in 2008.
A plaque commemorating the disaster was erected by the American Legion in 1961 at the location of the accident, the corner of Firestone Boulevard and Pioneer Boulevard.[citation needed] 1957 – Northeast Airlines Flight 823 , a Douglas DC-6, crashes during a snowstorm shortly after takeoff from LaGuardia Airport; twenty of the 101 occupants die.