In 1962, astronaut Scott Carpenter approached Breitling with a request: a special Navitimer featuring a 24-hour dial for his orbital flight aboard the Aurora 7 spacecraft. The result became the first Swiss wristwatch in space. More than six decades later,

On May 24, 1962, Scott Carpenter orbited the Earth three times as part of NASA’s Mercury-Atlas 7 mission—becoming only the second American to do so. On his wrist: a one-of-a-kind Navitimer, custom-built by Breitling for space. Its chronograph and signatur

mistake ... error ... mistake on content VARIANTS portion error !!! it should read VARIANTS: Breitling Geneve Top Time 810 MK2 with 24 hour sub dial The dial features a 24-hour sub dial this is NOT a standard feature for the Top Time MK2 models that is si

FROM THE BREITLING of 1884 thru 1978 ... Léon Breitling, his son Gaston, and later his grandson Willy Breitling 1935 thru 1978 often referred to as the ORIGINAL BREITLING era , before the company was taken over and rebranded Introduced in 1968 and was pro

Usually I visit cars and / or watch museum once or twice a year. In the past few years I visited the BMW museum in Munich, the Porsche museum in Zuffenhausen, the AP museum in Le Brassus, the Patek museum in Geneva, the IWC museum in Schaffhausen and toda

I gifted my B01 Chronomat 41 to my son a few years back and decided to move to the Navitimer range instead. I was attracted by the vintage re-edition of this 1959 Chronograph. I liked the idea of the vintage look of this re-edition without the drama of ow

But I love my “Scott Carpenter” more than I ever thought I would. The wide bezel make it a stand out a bit more too.

I love the fact that they, alongside with IWC, made no-BS tool watches for Men! Period. Watches like SuperOcean Steelfish, Emergency, Aerospace with UTC bracelet, Cosmonaute....yes they made these watches in different form today, but they are all environm

Sat for over a year at my local AD. They put it back in the safe and I picked it up over a year later 😊. Swapped out the strap - didn’t particularly like the black calf. I’m looking for the cosmonaute re-issue but not going to pay the current pre-owned pr

Breitling didn’t consider WR as a priority for pilot’s watches back then. I was reading the Hodinkee article on the water damage to Scott Carpenter’s Cosmonaute: