Introducing: The Breitling Navitimer 8
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What image comes into your mind when you hear the words, ?tool watch"?
Yeah, us too.
For us here at 60Clicks, like for most, the words often conjure up images of tough-as-nails dive watches. Hard working, tough looking, no-nonsense, ?everything you need, nothing you don?t? timepieces which SCUBA divers once used to not die in the ocean depths.
But aircraft pilots are fond of not dying too. And thus, the Breitling Navitimer was born. Its slide rule bezel could be, indeed was, used to calculate every quantity a pilot needed to get to their destination safely, from fuel consumption to rate of climb to air speed to estimated time of arrival. My cousin was once a USAF test pilot who loved his Breitling for just that reason. But these days, cockpit instruments perform those functions. The large, gaudy, complicated-looking Navitimers have become beautiful anachronisms, pursued more by watch geeks than aircraft pilots.
So what?s a watch company to do" In this case, a watch company whose mythos was built almost entirely on a piece that?s now relegated to being an interesting relic.
Astronauts and Movie Stars!
300 assorted Breitling fans, collectors, dealers, and journalists found out just what Breitling plans to do, at a Black Tie soirée in New York a few weeks ago, hosted by none other than Georges Kern himself, the newly installed CEO and majority stockholder of Breitling.
The third stop on a world tour, the New York introduction for the new Navitimer 8 ...
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