Founded in 1884 by Leon Breitling, Breitling is a Swiss watchmaker known for chronographs, aviation instruments, the Navitimer, Superocean, Chronomat, and modern sport-watch families.
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The Breitling entry in The Dial Atlas currently connects 2,382 cataloged references across 52 families. The catalog records 1884 as its founding year and Switzerland as its associated country. The maker is organized here as a navigable set of family and exact-reference records. These counts describe the structured archive available on this site, not the brand's complete historical output.
Start with Navitimer (383 references), Chronomat (315 references), Superocean (147 references), Bentley (141 references), and Avenger (114 references). Each family page keeps related watches together while preserving the reference codes, production periods, variants, and imagery that distinguish one execution from another. This makes the brand page a practical index for moving from a maker-level overview to the evidence attached to an individual watch.
Use the family links below to compare catalog breadth, follow production generations, and open the interactive Atlas view. Where the source data is available, reference dossiers surface case and dial details, movements, complications, nicknames, and current or discontinued status. The archive is designed to make both celebrated models and less familiar executions discoverable through stable, ordinary links.