#breitling

#breitling

In 1952, the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) - an American-founded non-profit and the world's largest aviation organization - approached Willy Breitling, scion of his family's eponymous watchmaking brand, to commission a timepiece for its members. Specifically, AOPA needed a chronograph that would allow its user to easily compute important information like speed, distance, fuel consumption and other calculations crucial to flying before the advent of flight computers.

Breitling debuted the Chronomat in the early 1940s with a bezel featuring a logarithmic scale that allowed aviators to perform various computations and calculations.