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HE PREMIER modernizes the Breitling’s new Premier Heritage collection is a vintage- inspired line that combines original styles with modern materials, movements, and design elements. The watches are a nod to the achievements of Breitling’s first three generations of founders. In 1906, Léon Breitling patented a timer with a tachymeter that could measure speeds between 15 and 150 km/h; in 1915, his son, Gaston Breitling, created one of the first wrist-worn chronographs with an independent pusher at 2 o’clock; and in 1934, his grandson Willy Breitling patented the second independent chronograph pusher at 4 o’clock and created the original Premier collection in the 1940s.The six watches in the new collection, the Chronograph, Duograph, and the Datora, are a tribute to these inventions. THE PREM I ER HER I TAGE L I NE PA Y S TR I BUTE TO BRE I T L I NG ’ S FOUNDERS BREITLING CHRONOGRAPH
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