Debuting this week at the Geneva Watch Days event is a new collection from Swiss chronograph specialist Breitling. The new models, called Endurance Pro, are positioned as everyday “athleisure” sports chronographs, powered by Breitling’s thermo-compensated SuperQuartz movement, bearing colorful dial accents and straps, and housed in lightweight cases made from the brand’s proprietary Breitlight material.

The Endurance Pro collection with colorful rubber straps.

The Endurance Pro joins Breitling’s Professional range of high-tech, multifunction tool watches (which also includes the Emergency and Aerospace Evo), its only collection powered entirely by SuperQuartz movements. Like many of its recent predecessors, it takes inspiration from a vintage model in Breitling’s archives, namely a 1970s classic called the Breitling Sprint. That watch combined a pulsometer (a function for athletes to monitor their heart rates) with a lightweight case made from resin and was produced in a variety of typically bold 1970s colors.
The Endurance Pro collection with colorful ECONYL yarn NATO straps.

There are five colorway variations of the Endurance Pro ? blue, orange, red, yellow, and white ? each featuring a black-colored dial with a matching bidirectional rotating bezel engraved with compass points (N, S, E, and W). The five new references also follow in the footsteps of the 1970s Sprint models, with their inner bezels marked with a pulsometer ...