Used Breitling Watch

If you're considering buying a used Breitling watch, you may be interested to hear a little more about this wonderful watch making company and how it first started. It all began in the year of 1884, in Switzerland (where most of the best watch making and producing companies in the world originated), where a man by the name of Leon Breitling started making watches in a very small workshop within the Jura Mountains. His specialty lay in creating intricate chronograph pocket watches for industry and science alone. As his workshop started gaining popularity and a certain following, he decided to move down into the very centre of Switzerland in La Chaux-de-Fonds, which was an area where many watchmakers practiced and had their own shops and workshops. Leon Breitling unfortunately passed away in the year of 1892, but his son Gaston Breitling took over the workshop and really got it going.

Gaston Breitling started producing wristwatches of his father's pocket watch design with the accurate chronograph (this is where your used Breitling watch comes into the story!) for the aviators to purchase during the First World War, as he saw it as a chance to get recognized and make some money by creating these wristwatches for the fighter pilots to use. In the year of 1932, Gaston Breitling's son Willy Breitling took over the company, which was in fact turning into a very successful family business at this time. Willy took his grandfather's designs even further by creating unique push pieces for the stopwatches or chronographs, as they were known in this time. His design was so successful in fact, that he became the official supplier to the Royal Air Force in the year of 1936 - what an achievement!

If you haven't purchased a used Breitling watch as yet, the Chronomat is one to look into. It was first produced in the year of 1942 and it was unique in that it had a specially placed slide rule within it and in the same year that this watch was created, Breitling increased his client base to include the American Armed Forces as well. Twenty years after the introduction of the Chronomat, the Navitimer was created, which had superb navigational capabilities that could calculate a range of figures that pilots needed. Breitling's one watch, the Cosmonaute made its way into outer space in the year of 1962, when the famous astronaut Scott Carpenter wore the watch when he launched in the Aurora Seven Space Capsule, giving Breitling an immense amount of publicity for his company.

Your used Breitling watch comes from an outstanding company and range of watches that have traveled the globe and beyond - not many watch owners can say that! But there's more to the wonderfully rich history of the Breitling Company, because in the year of 1969, Breitling produced a self-winding stopwatch, which was a massive breakthrough for the Swiss watch making industry! Breitling passed away after a successful career and the company was taken over by a man called Ernest Schneider in 1979.

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