Breitling’s “flight captain’s chronograph” takes off in an exclusive new 250-piece limited-edition version, the Breitling Chronoliner B04.
While we all use time to manage our day, measure our lives, and generally frame our existence, there’s one group of professionals for whom time is even more important, and that’s pilots. When you’re zipping from destination to destination time matters; when you’re trying to keep to a schedule, time matters; and when all the electronic circuitry is on the fritz, being able to tell the time matters.
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Accurately measuring flight times while juggling with timezones around the world: such is the mission of the new Breitling Chronoliner B04. To power this instrument, which is now presented with an 18-karat gold case and blue dial and ceramic bezel, Breitling has chosen its Manufacture Breitling Caliber B04, featuring revolutionary user-friendliness and certification from the COSC.
The main hours hand is adjusted to local time by simply pulling out the crown and turning it either way in one-hour increments – without losing any precision in terms of the minutes and automatically adjusting the date in either direction.
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Meanwhile, the red-tipped hand keeps track of home time in 24-hour mode, thereby serving to distinguish between day and night. The ultra-hard, scratch-resistant ceramic rotating bezel equipping this aviation chronograph with its timeless look displays a third timezone, also in 24-hour mode. Just the ticket for a long-haul flight around the world.
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