Fifty years ago, US astronaut Scott Carpenter led a voyage into space on board the Aurora 7. On this golden year, luxury Swiss watchmaker Breitling honors the monumental flight with the Limited Edition Navitimer Cosmonaute. The historical date was May 24, 1962, when a Breitling Navitimer chronograph became the first of its kind to embark […]

Yves “Jetman” Rossy of the Breitling Jet team once again pushed the boundaries of aviation by completing an amazing flight above the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Jetman, who is the only man to fly with a rigid wing equipped with four jet engines, jumped out of a helicopter above the Rodrigo de Freitas […]

Breitling has extended the warranty on its watches with manufacture calibers to five years, from two. The message is an expression of confidence in its enhanced capacity for quality control now that the brand produces its own movements. Breitling made around 40,000 of its own manufacture calibers last year, including the caliber 01 chronograph, the […]

Haute Time had the great honor of sitting down with Breitling USA President, Thierry Prissert at Basel World.

To counteract the escalating strength of the pound against the Swiss Franc, Breitling has reduced the price of their watches by 10%. On March 1st the price drop was applied to new and existing stock with recommended retail prices and trade prices both being reduced. Breitling stockholders will lose margin on the watches already in […]

1. Tell us some of the most exciting developments at Breitling today?  There are a lot of exciting developments at Breitling today. One of our most significant developments has been the creation and enhancement of our own in-house movement. In 2009, prior to the restrictions of Swatch sourcing watch movement to various vendors, we produced […]

This Breitling for Bentley GMT V8 looks recognizable to those who have seen other Breitling Bentley watches. It has its unique features though, such as the red inner city bezel, making a nice distinction with the black dial. It also has an added red triangle-tipped hour hand finishing one rotation every 24 hours, and multiple […]

Breitling will be offering #1 of 500 exclusive Naval Centennial Limited Edition Airwolf watches at an auction to benefit the “Breitling Scholars”, program to the National Flight Academy (NFA). The program encourages Science, Engineering Math and Technology education through aviation inspired simulations and scenarios. The historical timepiece was created to honor the 100th anniversary of […]

Bentley and Breitling, have collaborated on a limited edition chronograph. Inspired by Juha Kekkonen, who in the Bentley Supersports convertible broke his own ice speed record at 205.48mph on the frozen Baltic Sea, off the Finland coast. The limited edition chronograph accompanies the ISR Supersports convertible in a limited production number of 100 each and […]

You see a lot of watches out there with two hour hands, supposedly designed for travelers — one hour hand to tell the time at home, and the other for the local time. But not all two time zone watches are created equal. In the vast majority, the 12-hour local time hour hand (two time […]

It used to be that watch brands like Breitling didn’t offer highly diamond decorated watches direct out of the manufacture. Something about professional aviator watches studded with 4 carats of diamonds that didn’t seem to be marketable. It wasn’t until Swiss watch makers noticed a booming aftermarket watch ‘enhancement’ industry that they decided to offer […]