The New Connected Chronograph for Pilots

The mission statement of the Breitling Exospace B55 — an electronic chronograph watch that was teased but not officially launched at Baselworld 2015 earlier this year — is distinctive among the burgeoning crop of Swiss smartwatches and connected watches in that Breitling did not want to create a watch that was “dependent on a smartphone yet less efficient than the latter.” In other words, whereas the timepiece is built to pair up with a smartphone, it is also equipped for two-way communication between the devices, so both phone and watch form a complementary pair in which each does what it does best.For example, a smarwatch’s biggest assets, its relatively large screen and ergonomic interface, can be used to perform operations such as setting the time, time zone, alarms, display and operating parameters and night mode — tasks that would be more cumbersome on the small screen of a wristwatch. At the same time, the Breitling Replica UK, which boasts a multi-function, two-LCD-screen analog-digital display, performs an array of chronograph operations that can then be uploaded to a smartphone for review, storage, or sharing. These include pilot-friendly readings such as flight times, lap times, and recorded times with split times. The interface between phone and watch also enables the latter to receive notifications of incoming emails, Cheap Breitling Replica messages, phone calls with caller name and number, and appointment reminders.

The Breitling Exospace B55 follows the design codes of previous Breitling AnaDigi watches, such as the Breitling Emergency and Aerospace Evo, with a sturdy but lightweight case made of black titanium, measuring 46 mm in diameter, and equipped with a ratcheted, rotating, unidirectional bezel with rider tabs. The sapphire crystal is glareproof on both sides and the entire case is water-resistant to 100 meters.
The movement in the watch is Breitling Replica Watches Caliber B55, a thermocompensated “SuperQuartz” ana-digi movement equipped with a wide range of functions. Among these are an electronic tachymeter; a chronograph recording up to 50 split times; a countdown/countup system for MET readings; and numerous aviation-centric capabilities including a “chrono flight” device to record flight times and “block times” (jargon for the elapsed time from the moment a plane begins to taxi to the moment it comes to a stop at the end of a flight). It can store in its memory data including departure dates and times, arrival times, and takeoff and landing times. Other useful features include a perpetual calendar with week display, a battery-charge indicator, and seven daily alarms.

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The Breitling Replica UK Exospace B55 is outftted with a Volcano black dial and comes on a two-tone TwinPro rubber strap.I had the opportunity to talk about the watch today with Breitling CEO Jean-Paul Girardin and to try it on. Here’s what it looks like on the wrist. Below the photo, you can check out Breitling’s official video for the Exospace B55 Connected watch.

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Breitling Superocean Replica Showcases New High-Performance Caliber

Breitling’s output of new models at Baselworld 2016 was small compared to recent years, but featured some notable innovations, including an all-new, proprietary case material in the Avenger Hurricane and, in the new, limited-edition Breitling Heritage Superocean Chronoworks, a re-engineered movement with a 100-hour power reserve.

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Breitling Replica UK Chronoworks department, headquartered at the brand’s manufacture in la Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, is the equivalent to a team of engine-tuning experts in the automotive world, tasked with developing and testing performance-upgrading technologies that can subsequently be introduced in series-produced watches. Breitling describes the well-equipped Chronoworks lab as a “think tank and a test bench for tomorrow’s technologies.” For this new watch, the experts at Chronoworks turned their attention to Cheap Breitling Replica in-house, COSC-chronometer-certified base Caliber 01, ultimately incorporating five new technological advancements that enhanced the movement’s energy efficiency, reduced friction, and pumped up its already impressive 70 hours of winding autonomy to a full 100 hours.

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The first optimization involved the movement chassis. To reduce friction due to the pivoting of the arbors, Breitling Replica Watches constructed the movement chassis from a high-tech ceramic —hexagonal boron nitride — which was already being used as a solid adjuvant in high-performance engine lubricants, but is applied here for the first time in mechanical watchmaking. Thanks to an extremely low friction coefficient, the arbors can pivot directly in the baseplate and bridge holes without any wear or energy loss – and also without any lubricant, thereby eliminating 11 of the base movement’s 47 jewels.

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Contrary to what one might think, a watch movement is actually at rest for 95 percent of the time, with each “restart” resulting in a certain loss of energy. To counteract this inertia, Cheap Breitling Replica outfitted its caliber with three wheels made of silicon, a material twice as light as traditional materials used for these components, thus making them it easier to set back into motion. Breitling also revised the geometry of these wheels, made using deep-reactive iron etching, to make their structure more rigid and thus avoid any distortion of the spokes.
The escapement is the part of the movement where most of its energy losses take place. Here, breitling replica uk maintained the Swiss lever escapement used in the base movement but replaced the wheel and lever with ones made of silicon. This served to reduce weight and thus inertia, and eliminated the need for pallet jewels, thereby enhancing precision in terms of shapes. To ensure more efficient transmission of the energy from the barrel, the Chronoworks team also revised the profile of the teeth and pallets, and ensured a banking-free angular limitation of the lever to further increase reliability. The overall result is a 42% gain in efficiency for one of the movement’s most vital organs.
Balance-wheel oscillations are generally adjusted by modifying the active length of the balance-spring using pins, an operation that can disturb chronometry. The Breitling Replica Watches Chronoworks specialists opted instead for a variable-inertia balance, adjustable via four tiny gold weights situated around the rim. To free this component from temperature sensitivities and maintain the same rate precision in every circumstance, they combined a nickel felly with a cross made of brass, using the metal’s expansion/contraction to modify the inertia. When the temperature rises, the cross expands and “pulls” the felly towards the center, thus reducing inertia. This system reinterprets the principle of bimetallic balance wheels by leveraging state-of-the-art production technologies.

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The first Breitling watch to showcase these advancements, from the brand’s Superocean Héritage family, launches this year in a 100-piece limited edition. The Breitling Superocean Héritage Chronoworks is an all-black model with a new matte ceramic case, measuring 46 mm in diameter and featuring a ratcheted, rotating divers’ bezel and a curved sapphire crystal with glareproof coating on both sides. The “Volcano”black dial has pointed hour-markers echoing those on the 1957 Superocean, this watch’s vintage inspiration. Its tricompax design features 30-minute and 12-hour subdial counters for the 1/4-second chronograph function, along with a small seconds subdial and a date window at 4:30. The transparent caseback provides a view of the performance-optimized Chronoworks movement and its black winding rotor.