Maison 55 of 100 · Haute Horology
Breitling
The reading
The pilot’s slide-rule bezel is industrial design that became jewellery. Repositioned in the 2020s away from diamond bezels and toward the tool watch it started as.
The house
- Origin
- Switzerland
- Founded
- 1884
- Atelier
- Haute Horology
- Ownership
- CVC / Partners Group
- Signature
- Navitimer / Chronomat
- Register note
- Aviation slide-rule This line is the register’s own characterisation, not a sourced figure; see Méthode.
Where it sits in this register
Against the whole register by founding year it comes 34th of a hundred. Haute Horology holds eighteen houses here, and this is the 15th of them. No single parent stands above it here — the ownership field reads CVC / Partners Group. It is one of sixteen maisons filed here from Switzerland, the third-largest national group in the register. By rank it falls in the register's third quarter. Haute Horology accounts for eighteen of the hundred entries; the other eighty-two are filed elsewhere. Between Rémy Martin (1724) and Genesis (2015), the two ends of the register, it falls at 1884.