Breitling

Breitling, founded in 1884, is a Swiss luxury watch brand. It is popular among aviators and pilots who often use the Breitling chronometers under difficult and challenging conditions. The brand mainly produces two in-house calibers, Breitling calibre B01 and Breitling calibre B04 (similar to B01 but with a GMT feature).

The Breitling BR01 is the movement of the Breitling Chronomat 01, Breitling’s premiere attempt at producing an entire watch in-house. The Breitling Chronomat GMT Limited and the Breitling Chronomat 44 GMT are equipped with the Breitling B04.

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PORTFOLIO

Splash! A Plunge Into the Colorful World of Watersports Watches

Take the plunge with us into the colorful world of water sports. Here you can find professional instruments with appealing technologies, styles, and prices. In this article, we present divers’ watches without complex additional functions (e.g., chronographs) because the watches listed here are designed to focus your undivided attention on the time of day and the...

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Aug 19, 2020 by Alexander Krupp

Sponsored: Where Professionalism Meets Technology, ProTek Sees Its Debut

Crafted with first responders in mind, American watchmaker ProTek launches this month with the debut of their initial collection, the Series 1000. The new brand joins the Time Concepts family of brands, and is helmed by industry veteran Barry Cohen, founder of Luminox. After founding Luminox in 1989, Cohen differentiated the brand as an industry...

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May 10, 2022 by WatchTime

Golden State Exclusive: Breitling Superocean Heritage B20 Automatic 44 Black Steel Beverly Hills Limited Edition

Despite its longtime affiliation with pilots' watches, Breitling counts its vintage-flavored divers' watch, the Superocean Heritage, among its most popular modern timepieces. Recently the brand announced the release of a new limited edition in the collection, to be carried exclusively in its two Los Angeles-area boutiques.

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Jul 31, 2020 by Mark Bernardo

FEATURE:

Hello, Newman! 10 Panda-Dial Chronographs That Aren’t the Rolex Paul Newman Daytona

Actual pandas are a rare and vulnerable species, only recently removed from the endangered list, but "panda dial" watches — loosely described as chronographs with black subdials on a predominantly white main dial — are more ubiquitous than ever, especially in the wake of the record-breaking auction sale of the world's most famous panda-dial watch, Paul Newman's Rolex Daytona. Here we round up 10 currently available panda-dial watches.

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Jul 8, 2020 by Mark Bernardo

WATCH TO WATCH

James Bond’s “Thunderball” Watch Returns: The Breitling Top Time Limited Edition (Updated with Live Photos)

British super-spy James Bond is known for wearing both Rolexes and Omegas in his long series of cinematic adventures, but one of the most famous and fondly remembered timepieces in the Bond film canon comes from Breitling. In 1965’s Thunderball, Bond uses a Breitling Top Time model equipped with a Geiger counter to track down...

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Jun 3, 2020 by Mark Bernardo

Rainbow Redux: Breitling Issues Second Superocean Heritage ’57 Limited Edition for COVID-19 Charities

Breitling unveiled a new “capsule collection” of its vintage-inspired dive watch, the Superocean Heritage ’57, during its Summit Webcast back in April. One particular model in that collection caught on like wildfire — a limited edition with a multi-colored “rainbow” dial. This week, Breitling announced a second edition of that popular timepiece, with partial proceeds...

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May 20, 2020 by Mark Bernardo

REVIEW:

Set and Ready: A Hands-On Review of the Breitling Superocean Héritage II

Breitling and Tudor made the decision to bundle their expertise in the design and production of mechanical watches even before changes came to the Breitling company. This became clear, not only in interviews with CEO Georges Kern, but as it is expressed by the timepieces themselves. A modified Breitling movement B01 powers Tudor chronographs as...

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Apr 24, 2020 by Martina Richter

The New Breitling Chronomat Collection Roars Off the Runway

The first Breitling Chronomat made its debut in 1948, and instantly made history as the first wristwatch to incorporate the aviator’s slide-rule bezel that is now the hallmark of another Breitling model, the Navitimer. When the Chronomat was resurrected after a lengthy hiatus in 1984, Breitling’s 100th anniversary year, it had been substantially redesigned and...

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Apr 16, 2020 by Mark Bernardo

History Surfacing: Breitling Unveils New Superocean Heritage ’57 Capsule Collection

As part of its Spring 2020 launches announced today, Breitling unveiled its latest vintage-inspired family: the new Superocean Heritage ’57 Capsule Collection, a sub-series within the Superocean Heritage line that includes three new additions to the permanent collection and one new limited-edition timepiece. The new collection takes its inspiration from the first SuperOcean (on vintage...

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Apr 16, 2020 by Caleb Anderson

NEWS

Driving Ahead: Breitling Releases the Premier Bentley Mulliner Limited Edition

After kicking off 2020 with a new gold version of its flyback-chrono-equipped Navitimer, and following it up with another vintage re-edition from its rich aviation-watch history, Breitling continues this year’s rollouts with the new Premier Bentley Mulliner Limited Edition. Based on Breitling’s Premier B01 Chronograph 42, the model was released as part of Breitling’s Bentley...

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Mar 10, 2020 by Caleb Anderson

NEWS

Revisiting the Fifties: Breitling Launches the AVI Ref. 765 1953 Re-Edition

On the heels of its popular Navitimer Ref. 809 1959 Re-Edition, Breitling continues to grow its stable of pilots’ watches inspired by vintage models. The latest, which debuted last week, is the AVI Ref. 765 1953 Re-Edition, channeling the design of the original 1950s Co-Pilot watch (vintage watch pictured below) and representing, in fact, only...

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Feb 26, 2020 by Caleb Anderson

NEWS

Norqain Announces New In-House Calibers in Partnership with Tudor-Founded Kenissi

Norqain is an independent, family-owned watch brand located in the Swiss watch hub of Bienne. Its board of directors includes its founder and CEO, 32-year-old Ben Küffer; his father, Marc Küffer, former owner of another Swiss watch manufacturer, Roventa-Henex; Ted Schneider, of the family that owned Breitling for nearly 40 years; and Mark Streit, a...

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Feb 5, 2020 by Mark Bernardo

WATCH TO WATCH

Gray, Gold, and Bold: Breitling Navitimer B03 Chronograph Rattrapante 45

Breitling's Navitimer 1 B03 Rattrapante 45, unveiled in 2017, represented a new technical height for the aviation-focused watchmaker: namely its first model with a in-house-made split-seconds chronograph movement. This year, Breitling re-interprets its most highly complicated chronograph watch in a new model pairing a luxurious 18k rose-gold case with the brand's hallmark “Stratos gray” dial.

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Jan 23, 2020 by Mark Bernardo

2019: THE WATCH YEAR IN REVIEW

Eight Significant Pilot’s Watches That Landed in 2019

As we approach the end of 2019 and prepare for 2020 — surely destined to be another interesting year in the world of watches — we take a look back at some of the most noteworthy timepieces that came out this year, in various popular categories. Today, we look at eight watches from 2019 targeted...

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Dec 25, 2019 by Mark Bernardo

WATCH TO WATCH

Creating a Buzz: The New Breitling Aviator 8 B01 Chronograph 43 Mosquito

At Breitling’s Los Angeles Summit this past September, the Swiss brand debuted a number of different models (including an all-new Avenger collection) and showcased many of its already popular designs. But one watch unveiled at the event seemed to stand out in the crowd: the new Aviator 8 B01 Chronograph 43 Mosquito. The new watch...

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Dec 20, 2019 by Caleb Anderson

TREND PIECE:

Orange is the New Black: Our 10 Favorite Orange (Non-Dive) Watches of 2019

As my colleague Mark Bernardo pointed out during WatchTime’s post-Baselworld Round Table earlier this year, 2019 has often felt like it is “more about new colors than new complications.” Diverse colorways have no doubt been trending upwards in recent years with blue, green, and brown all making major headway onto the wrists of watch collectors. One...

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Nov 21, 2019 by WatchTime

NEWS

Breitling and Crown & Caliber Team Up For Online Trade-In Program

Breitling CEO Georges Kern has a strong track record of being a retail innovator. Six months ago, for example, Breitling introduced a pilot project for a new boutique concept which combines a watch store with a premium café, bar, and bistro at Jelmoli in Zurich, Switzerland. Now, the Swiss watch brand is launching a trade-in...

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Nov 7, 2019 by Roger Ruegger

FEATURE

Vintage Eye for the Modern Guy: Breitling Navitimer Automatic 41

2019 has been a big year for Breitling. With the Swiss luxury watchmaker, most renowned for its pilots’ watches, releasing new models in the Avenger, Aviator 8, SuperOcean, and Premier collections, the brand has undergone a refreshing year across all its collections, in a manner incredibly uncommon among manufacturers of its size. One of the...

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Oct 6, 2019 by Caleb Anderson

NEWS

A New Team of Avengers: Breitling Relaunches the Avenger Collection at L.A. Summit Event

The third Breitling Summit took place on September 24 in Los Angeles, and the headlining announcement was the relaunch, and revamp, of the sporty, aviation-inspired Avenger collection, a series of models that had been mostly dormant for the past few years of the new Breitling era. Here is a brief rundown of what the new...

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Sep 26, 2019 by Mark Bernardo

NEWS:

Breitling Continues its Series of Global Airline Partnerships with the New Aviator 8 Etihad Limited Edition

As part of its just-announced relationship with Etihad Airways, the national airline of the UAE, Breitling has unveiled the Aviator 8 Etihad Limited Edition in black steel. This is a limited edition of 500 pieces and features stylized Arabic numerals on the dial, as is the norm with most Middle East editions. The limited edition...

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Sep 16, 2019 by WatchTime

How Far Below Can They Go? 4 Deep-Sea Dive Watches

From the WatchTime archives: These four extreme divers’ watches — listed in ascending order of their water-resistance level — are reliable companions for adventurers who explore the darkness under the sea.

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Aug 30, 2019 by Alexander Krupp

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