Pl. 58 · illus.Navitimer
Breitling · 806
Switzerland · since 1884
Breitling
Machine translation pending human review. Figures and sources match the original.
Léon Breitling founded the company in 1884 to make precision chronometers, mostly pocket pieces, and later moved it to La Chaux-de-Fonds. The house became tied to aviation when the Navitimer was made the official watch of the AOPA pilots' association. In 1962 Scott Carpenter took a custom Navitimer into space, the origin of the Cosmonaute. Today its catalogue divides into air, land and sea, with in-house calibres such as the B01 and the recent B31.
- Models in the Archive
- 17
- Lines
- 9
- Median diameter
- 42 mm
- Most common type
- Chronograph
Timeline
Léon Breitling founds the company.
The date Breitling gives for the Navitimer commission for the AOPA; other sources place its launch in 1954-1956.
Introduces the SuperOcean, in chronograph and three-hand versions.
Scott Carpenter orbits the Earth with a custom Navitimer.
The Top Time collection is born.
The Chronomat marks the company's hundredth anniversary.
Presents the in-house automatic calibre B31.
