Under its new ownership and management, Breitling has reached beyond its traditional identity as an aviation brand and begun to embrace a more well-rounded “land, sea, and air” approach to its new models. The latest example of this is its launch of the Exospace B55 Yachting, a Bluetooth-enabled, device-connected watch for sailors that follows up the original Exospace B55 watch, which was engineered for pilots.
The Breitling Exospace B55 Yachting is packed with technology useful to professional yachtsmen.
Whereas the first Exospace B55 from 2015 was chock full of pilot-friendly functions ? electronic tacyhmeter, recording of flight times and block times, memory storage for departure dates, arrival times, and takeoff and landing times ? the new model is equipped with a range of tools developed with yachting professionals and regatta competitors in mind. Powered by Breitling’s thermocompensated SuperQuartz movement, the watch includes a chronograph with analog and digital displays and a cleverly designed countdown system with audible, visible, and vibrating alarms and indications. The countdown timer, a feature emblematic of regatta-timing watches, is notable for the ease with which it can be reset and re-synched to a new countdown if a judge stops and re-starts the countdown to the start of a regatta. Chronograph split times, also useful data in any type of race timing, can be stored in the watch’s memory and displayed on either the watch’s digi...