Breitling Navitimer 8 Chronograph

Released in 1954, the Breitling Navitimer has been in production longer than any other sporting chronograph. Complex yet elegant, you're bound to get lost in the dial… …which is probably not a good thing if you're a pilot using it to navigate while flying, but we digress. Over the decades, the Navitimer has seen countless variations that offer a wide range of design features, materials, complications and casing materials. This particular Navitimer, a Navitimer 8 Chronograph, eschews the complex dial of the 1950s original with its myriad timing scales for a clean, highly legible, triple register chronograph layout. Housed in a 43mm stainless steel case with a sapphire crystal, a signed crown, and a bi-directional steel bezel, it features a luminous blue dial with printed ‘Arabic’ indices, a matching handset, and calendar indications at 3 o'clock. Power by a workhorse automatic winding chronograph movement — it comes paired to a stainless steel slant-link bracelet with a signed fliplock clasp. Representing one of the first releases from the George Kern-led Breitling era, it’s an important model in Navitimer history, and a fantastic everyday watch from a beloved marque.