When Breitling introduced the Navitimer In 1952, the first commercial jet planes were just coming into service. Experimental transonic and supersonic aircraft like the Douglas X-3 Stiletto and D-558-II Skyrocket were making aviation history. The Breitling Navitimer Replica Watches was designed to help pilots coordinate time and navigation. The watch was…
The new Breitling Avenger Bandit, with its gray “stealth” look said to be inspired by naval aviation, is a new chronograph watch that would look right at home on the deck of an aircraft carrier as well as in the cockpit of a fighter jet. Its aviator-friendly case is suitably…
In this watch test feature our writer Jens Koch and photographer Nik Schölzel pit modern versions of two iconic 1970s chronographs — the TAG Heuer Monaco and the Cheap Breitling Replica Chono-Matic — against each other in a challenge of retro sports watches. The generation that came of age in…
This won’t be an impartial review of a vintage watch – far from it. I own, and love, this 1960s chronograph from Breitling. I wish to explain here what led me to a watch with a 41mm case, when I usually swear by more modest sizes for my personal watches….
Whatever your feelings are about the size of modern Navitimers, Cheap Breitling Replica icon is without a doubt one of the definitive pilot’s watches. Developed with, and for, the Aircraft Owners & Pilots Association during the early 1950s, the original reference 806 Navitimer allowed pilots to calculate critical information, such as…