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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.