1884 – The Birth of Breitling
In 1884 Léon Breitling established Breitling in Grenchen – the Canton of Solothurn, in Switzerland. Breitling concentrates on to create precision watches for sports, science, and industry.
1915- The Initial Success
Breitling received initial success when the first independent chronograph push piece was made.
1923 - Improvement
Replica Breitling was improved by separating the stop and start functions, which helped solve the problem of resetting clocks for timing purposes. This was also useful for timing sports competitions and calculating flight times.
1952- Timepieces for Pilots
Breitling created the famous Navitimer Collection which was designed for aviation. It offered pilots a mechanical aviation computer with which they could calculate flight plan details. Thus, their features have a near connection with the pilots. They are recognizable for the constructed-in slide rule which can be applied to calculate the pace or elapse the time and distance. Breitling Navitimer Replica timepiece became quite popular to pilots.
1957- Timepieces for Divers
The Breitling launched SuperOcean when dive watches exploded in popularity and development. The main principles of the Breitling SuperOcean are easy legibility and high level functionality. Like many diving watches of the ’50s, Breitling developed the Superocean for professional divers and military. When the watch was first released, the model flaunted water resistance to 200 meters, or 660 feet, a very impressive feat for the time.
(1950s-1960s)- Popularity
Breitling became the natural choice for commercial aviation and its chronographs even became standard watches among airline companies and aircraft manufacturers. In 1962, Scott Carpenter used a Breitling Navitimer for his orbital flight in the Aurora 7 capsule. Breitling can boast with the first chronograph wrist watch in space.
1984- The Flagship
Breitling launched the famous Chronomat Collection- the flagship of Breitling, which announced the reappearance of mechanical chronographs. The Breitling Chronomat Collection is unique for being a pilots watch with divers watch features.
2009 - Chronogaph Movements
Breitling created the famous Caliber 01 in-house chronograph movement which is considered to be one of the most prominent automatic chronogaph movements in the world.