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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 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 .
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 .
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 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.
The Breitling Jet Team was the largest civilian aerobatic display team in Europe. Based in Dijon , France , it flew seven Aero L-39 Albatros jets. The team flew a display lasting 18–20 minutes that included formation flying, opposition passes, solo routines, and synchronized maneuvers.
Breitling Orbiter 3 was the first balloon to fly around the world non-stop, piloted by Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones. Designed and built by Cameron Balloons, of Bristol, England, Breitling Orbiter 3 stood 180 ft (55 m) tall when inflated completely. The propane gas that fueled its six burners was contained in 28 titanium cylinders mounted in ...