The new face of a watchmaking and aviation legend - Breitling Navitimer 01 Limited Edition

• 1000-piece limited edition version of the famous Navitimer
• 35 watches dedicated to the Middle East
• Available with steel bracelet and leather or crocodile leather straps 
• The legend is back in gray and black livery

Dubai UAE - January 27, 2016: Breitling has introduced the new face of a watchmaking and aviation legend with a 1000-piece limited edition version of its famous Navitimer - the new Navitimer 01 Limited Edition. This new version is armed with a dark gray dial featuring black counters and a Manufacture Breitling caliber equipped with a black oscillating weight. 

Being a great classic means starting with a powerful design and being capable of self-renewal. First launched in 1952, the Navitimer handles these two aspects as deftly as a skilled pilot maneuvers his aircraft. In more than 60 years, it has established itself as a cult object for devotees of aviation and the doyenne of all mechanical chronographs produced worldwide. 

Commenting on the new limited edition version, Aed Adwan, Breitling Middle East, said: “The Breitling Navitimer is the flagship instrument for aviation professionals and over half a century later, it continues to regularly adopt new and distinctive faces. This limited edition is distinguished by its dark gray dial featuring a sunburst brushed finish that subtly offsets the black counters. The result is an original, technical and eminently masculine look.”

The dial side displays its famous circular aviation slide rule, which reflects Breitling’s ties with the aeronautical world and the caseback provides a window onto another of the brand’s stronghold that explains its success among aviators: impressive mastery of mechanical chronograph movements.

The Navitimer 01 Limited Edition is powered by Manufacture Breitling Caliber 01. This high performance ‘engine’, entirely developed and produced in the company workshops and chronometer-certified by the COSC (Swiss Official Chronometer Testing Institute), is a guarantee of peerless precision and reliability.

Echoing the special dial decoration, the oscillating weight visible through the transparent sapphire crystal caseback features a black coating lending an original touch. 

The Navitimer 01 Limited Edition is available with a steel bracelet, or with leather or crocodile leather straps in a variety of colors. 

Movement: 
•    Manufacture Breitling Caliber 01
•    Officially chronometer-certified by the COSC, selfwinding
•    High-frequency (28,800 vibrations per hour)
•    47 jewels
•    More than 70-hour power reserve
•    1/4th of a second chronograph
•    30-minute and 12-hour totalizers
•    Calendar 

Case: 
•    Steel (1000-piece limited series) 
•    Resistance 3 bars 
•    Rotating bezel with circular slide rule
•    Cambered sapphire crystal, glareproofed on both sides
•    Transparent sapphire crystal caseback
•    Diameter: 43 mm

Dial:

• Stratos gray