Breitling Announces Navitimer Aviator 8 Swiss Limited-Edition Timepieces
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After starting its partnership with Swiss International Airlines in 2016, Breitling has functioned as its official timekeeper. To celebrate its ongoing partnership with the airlines, the luxury watch manufacturer based in Grenchen, Switzerland, has released tBreitling Announces Navitimer Aviator 8 Swiss Limited-Edition Timepieces
After starting its partnership with Swiss International Airlines in 2016, Breitling has functioned as its official timekeeper. To celebrate its ongoing partnership with the airlines, the luxury watch manufacturer based in Grenchen, Switzerland, has released two new timepieces in the form of the Navitimer Aviator 8 B01 SWISS and the Navitimer Aviator 8 Automatic Swiss. Both the watches importantly carry on the company’s dedication to wrist chronographs for pilots, which was the focus of the Huit Aviation Department created by Willy Breitling in 1938.The Navitimer Aviator 8 B01 Chronograph 43 SWISS Limited-Edition comes with the Manufacture Caliber 01, which is created in-house by the company and it provides a power reserve of 70 hours. With an aircraft-shaped base on the central chronograph second hand, the watch is a COSC-certified chronometer. It has a 43-mm case in stainless steel and a black dial, which features small-seconds, 30-minute and 12-hour chronograph subdials. The company is set to produce 777 pieces of the watch, which is a tribute to the Boeing 777 airliner operated by SWISS airlines.In the Navitimer Aviator 8 Automatic SWISS Limited-Edition, the Breitling Caliber 17 runs the show and has a power reserve of 40 hours. A black dial is present on the 41mm watch and the hour and minute hands are coated with Super-LumiNova, which emits a luminescent glow. The case back features an engraving of a turbine engine and the sweep-second hand has a jetliner base. The limited-edition timepiece will be offered in 1000 pieces.Click on the slideshow to check the timepieces.http://www.blouinartinfo.comFounder: Louise Blouin Read more