In 1943, about five years after Breitling became the official supplier of aviation chronographs to the British military, Willy Breitling had a Eureka moment: why not create a chronograph that was not ...

Introducing six new Premier models, updated with a heritage-inspired design and equipped with the Breitling Manufacture Caliber 01. Their launch coincides with a new book chronicling the genesis of ...

Created in 1952 for the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA), the Navitimer united a chronograph with Breitling’s patented circular slide rule, allowing aviators to perform flight ...

Welcome to Watches You Should Know, a biweekly column highlighting important or little-known watches with interesting backstories and unexpected influence. This week: the Breitling No. 100 ...

Breitling’s Premier collection is the elite collection within the Breitling line, and as such, the repository of its most complex movements and dressiest designs. It is therefore the perfect model to ...

The Premier collection is the brainchild of Willy, who sought to elevate the wristwatch to a thing of elegance without compromising its technical prowess. The original Premier model launched in 1943 ...

There aren’t many companies that count astronauts and World War II heroes among their clientele, but Breitling is one of them. For more than 100 years the Swiss manufacturer has been the unmistakable ...

Breitling has announced six new watches to join its Premier collection of heritage-inspired chronograph watches. These new watches are available with dials finished in black, green, blue, salmon and ...

The human body isn’t designed to fly – no wings, tail, webs or hollow bones. Sitting at the edge of a Pilatus PC-6 Porter plane with the bright lettering of Swiss watchmaking company Breitling visible ...

“Balloonist” might not have the macho ring to it of, say, “fighter pilot,” but the men who flew the first non-stop hot air balloon around the world are just the kind of adventurers that ...