Breitling launch new watch series Super AVI

Super AVI is a celebration of aviation history with designs inspired by the original 1953 “Co-Pilot” Ref. 765 AVI aviator’s watch and four legendary planes: the North American Aviation P-51Mustang, the Vought F4U Corsair, the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk and the de Havilland Mosquito.

 In the 1930s, Breitling’s Huit Aviation department made its name inventing precision cockpit clocks for the then nascent field of aeronautics.  Two decades later, in 1953, Breitling introduced the world to yet another novel flight instrument, this time in wearable form.  The Ref.765 AVI pilot’s watch was an instant hit.  Beloved by aviators, it quickly became known as the “Co-Pilot”.

 That pioneering watch is the inspiration for today’s Super AVI, the debut series in Breitling’s Classic AVI collection.  Its launch marks nearly a century of aviation timepieces from a brand that shared some of the field’s finest moments.  From brave first take offs to the birth of commercial air travel, Breitling’s history is inseparable from that of flight.