When I think of Breitling, aviation immediately comes to mind - and not just because of the wings in the logo. Even before the Navitimer was released in the early 1950s, the company had offered pilots essential navigation tools and was used in places like the British RAF's cockpits. On the other hand, Breitling's contribution is diving watches often forgotten, and wrongly. But by taking an in-depth look at the detailed history of the reliable Breitling SuperOcean, a groundbreaking line of watches that introduced no less than the first known inverted panda clock chronograph and a fascinating slow counter mechanism, someone is trying to correct this incorrectly.
The original duo of SuperOcean watches with their inimitable indexes.

The first two references from the SuperOcean are now highlights of the auction, with one reference 807 fetching 65,000 CHF at Phillips' theme Start-Stop-Reset (more than twice the high estimate). Launched in 1957, the SuperOcean expanded Breitling's reach above the sky, matching the booming demand for dive watches that led Blancpain and Rolex to create the Fifty Fathoms and Submariner just a few years earlier. Their unique appearance can also explain Their current success that neither my friend Phil nor I can resist. Finally, try to find the same long and pointed indexes on any precise watch other than the SuperOcean, which was incidentally the first chronograph to ever offer an inverted panda dial.