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Breitling SA

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Breitling "Navitimer", 50er Jahre

Swiss clock manufacturer

The company Breitling was created 1884 by Léon Breitling in Saint-Imier (Switzerland). 1892 took place the removal after La Chaux-de-Fonds into the again established factory, which specialized first in watches.

1914 die Léon Breitling with only 54 years and bequeath the manufaktur to its son Gaston Breitling. This begins itself to interest in the course of the development of aviation using at that time in aviation and employs considerations, as clocks can be begun suitably for this. Already starting from 1914 wrist-watches with chronograph for sporty and military purposes are manufactured. Today the yellow signature Breitling lifts itself far away visibly from the dark-blue building of the modern flat roof house, which is nearby the station Grenchen south, clearly off. The remarkable contrast of the factory building to dissolved, both sides the law south foot drawing line former manufacturing plants present of Swiss watch-and-clock-making industry, the long, witnesses itself impressively from the success of the Breitling strategy: Tradition + innovation.

Bracelet- and aviationchronograph for pilots

After the death of gas Gaston Breitling in the year 1927 inherits its nephew Willy the company. It continues the developments of its predecessor.

1930 the company already offers 40 different Chronographen models.

In the year 1936 Willy Breitling brings a become famous aviationchronograph for airplanes on the market, which is used later by over 30 airlines, since that time and supplies the Royal Airforce with clocks for its airplanes.

The classical watches Chronomat and Navitimer

1942 Breitling presents the model Chronomat, to one Chronographen with slide rule and winding mechanism, which is introduced with American armed forces (US Army air Force) officially.

The most well-known model of the company is 1952 developed "Navitimer" with inserted slide rule, of which 1986 a new edition on the market is brought. This braceletchronograph can by its possibility of realizing a correct air traffic control of replacing an instrument. With its assistance can be accomplished time measurement, speed computation as well as the measurement of the fuel consumption. The Navitimer is appointed the official Aviator Chronograph of the pilot combination AOPA, whose Logo carries the first models. In the year 1962 Breitling develops Cosmonaute, which the astronaut Scott Carpenter with its space mission with the cap Aurora 7 to 24 May 1962 carries. This clock has a 24-Stunden-Zifferblatt.