Breitling

History of Breitling

1884 Léon Breitling (1860-1914) opened a workshop in Saint-Imier specialising in the development and manufacture of chronographs and precision counters.

1892 The workshop moved to La Chaux-de-Fonds under the name G. Léon Breitling S.A. Montbrillant Watch Factory.

1915 Wrist chronograph with pushbutton incorporated in the crown and 30-minute totaliser.

1923 Wrist chronograph with separate pushbutton (Breitling patent).

1934 Wrist chronograph with two pushbuttons for measuring several successive short intervals (Breitling patents).

1936 Creation of a cockpit chronograph. Breitling was made official supplier to the Royal Air Force.

1942 Chronomat, the first wrist chronograph with a logarithmic slide rule.

1952 Navitimer, capable of every calculation required in flight. It would become the definitive pilot’s watch.

1962 Cosmonaute, worn by Scot Carpenter during his orbital flight aboard the Aurora 7 space capsule on May 24th, 1962.

1969 Creation of the Chronomat with microrotor in conjunction with Heuer-Léonidas and Buren.

1979 Ernest Schneider took over the firm which he registered as Montres Breitling in Granges.

1983 Navitimer GMT.

1984 Navitimer Chronomat in consultation with the elite Italian flight team, Frecce Tricolori.
World watch with four time zones.

1995 Emergency, an electronic chronograph with distress signal function.

1999 Breitling sponsored the Swiss Bertrand Piccard and Englishman Brian Jones in their successful challenge to make the first non-stop round-the-world balloon flight (March 1st-21st, 1999).
Breitling submitted its entire product range to the Contrôle Officiel Suisse de Chronométrie (the Swiss official chronometer testing institute).

2001 Introduction of Superquartz, ten times more accurate than a standard quartz movement.

2002 Breitling opened a production unit in La Chaux-de-Fonds regrouping Chronométrie SA (movement manufacture and casing) and Kélek (manufacturer of high-end chronographs, taken over by Breitling in 1997).

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