Breitling’s modern-retro timepieces revolve around air, land and sea themes. This year the Swiss watchmaker takes to the sky by celebrating the Navitimer’s 70th anniversary with a redesigned collection, recently launched on a Zurich-to-Geneva flight.
By providing flight instruments, Breitling’s ties with aviation began in the early 1940s.
In 1952, Willy Breitling developed the Navitimer as a wrist-worn instrument featuring a circular slide rule that enabled pilots to perform all necessary flight calculations, such as average speed, distance travelled, fuel consumption and rate of climb or descent.
He actually adapted the logarithmic slide rule of the 1940s…
