SPACE RACE

Breitling’s loving reproduction of its first Swiss wristwatch to make it to space

Alvin Wong

Although the Breitling Navitimer is best known for conquering the skies with its stature as the de facto tool watch for pilots, the storied collection once exhibited ambitions that stretched far beyond the confines of aeronautical altitudes. Back in 1962, the Navitimer Cosmonaute blasted into horological record books as the first Swiss wristwatch to make it to space when it was worn by astronaut Scott Carpenter on his May 24 Mercury-Atlas mission in which the Aurora 7 spacecraft orbited three times around our planet. Sixty years after the momentous occasion – which incidentally also marks the 70th anniversary of the launch of the Navitimer – Breitling pays homage to the Navitimer Cosmonaute with an almost faithful reproduction of the original. Limited to 362 pieces, a number that references both the spacecraft’s…

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