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Breitling Aerospace

  when watches told you the time rather than telling you off, Breitling launched the Navitimer Aerospace. It combined a traditional set of analogue hands with two high-tech digital displays: one at the top of the dial, one at its base. This was just 15 years after the quartz revolution had given the world watches that went ‘bleep’ and lit up with little red digits. An industry which had moved with all the urgency of a glacier since God the

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