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Leon Breitling first opened a workshop in La Chaux-de-Fonds in 1884, making pocket watches and chronographs. Breitling made its first wrist watch in 1914 when Louis's son Gaston intiated production for war time needs. 1936 Leons grandson Willy Breitling launched a chronometer for instrument panels in airplane cockpits, which Breitling still provides to the aviation industry today. Breitling has been closely assocciated with the aviation industry for a long time. In 1952 Breitling released its still popular Navimeter watch, a super chronograph designed specifically for pilots. Various models of this watch have been made since and continue to be made today. The first navimeter went supersonic in 1962 when Astronaut Scott Carpenter wore one on his wrist for an orbital flight aboard the Aura 7 capsule.

The Breitling focus has, and still is, on the outdoor market place. Breitling released its quartz steel deep sea in 1985, built to withstand underwater pressure at 1000m/3,280ft. The unusual feature of this watch is that because helium can permeate anything (including the steel watch case), it has twin release values set in the case that open fractionally for a few thousands of a second to release built up helium without letting in water. In 1979 Ernest Schneider, a pilot and electronics specialist, aquired the company and has been careful to continue along the same lines of thinking which Breitling has always adheared to :- A Classic wrist watch may or may not be beautiful, but it must always be useful - compatiable with the wearers needs

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