1952 was the birth-hour of one of the most famous chronographs of the world - the "Breitling Navitimer". It is an absolute cult object under pilots and is regarded as a primary rock of all automatic chronographs. This pilot watch icon with manual winding mechanism has a rotating bezel on both sides. In the past, the multifunctional disc rule had been used by pilots to determine ranges of reach (for example, the calculation of fuel consumption, average speeds, climb and descent rates, etc.) without computer-controlled electronics. Also convenient was the possibility of converting miles to kilometers and vice versa. The Navitimer received an official recommendation as a pilot's watch, from the interests of the pilots and aircraft owners (AOPA). The euphoria for this successor of the chronomats continues to this day. The current version of the Navitimer is equipped with the in-house automatic chronograph movement B01 and is named Navitimer B01.

In 1965 the renowned Swiss companies G. Leon Breitling S.A., Heuer-Leonidas S.A. and Dubois Dépraz S.A. joined together to launch the world's first chronograph with automatic winding. The company Buren S.A. received the order to develop the automatic clockwork. On March 3rd, 1969, the companies involved in Geneva, New York, Hong Kong and Beirut succeeded in presenting their product under the name of "Caliber 11 Chronomat". The “Caliber 11” in which the spring house of the watch is mounted by means of an eccentric flywheel is still a key feature of the watch. Unfortunately the archrival Zenith was thus one step ahead. They had the chance to present the "El Primero" ("the first") a few weeks before the “Caliber11”, the world’s most advanced chronograph with automatic movement chronograph with an elaborate original Burenkaliber version 12.

The most successful liasion between an automobile manufacturer and a watch manufacturer was the cooperation between Breitling and Bentley. True to the motto "Think big in small things", both manufacturers underline that they share the same values as performance, prestige and precision.

The collaboration began in 2002, when the watch producer from Grenchen designed the technical instrumentation and designed the dashboard clock of the new "Breitling Continental GT". One year later, Breitling joined the Bentley team as the new main sponsor at the Le Mans 24-hour race. The Bentley team won and Breitling presented the exceptional and refined "Breitling for Bentley Motors" (A25362) chronograph with the Bentley grille-inspired bezel. With this robust watch, Breitling set the benchmark for all the following models.

In addition to the sporty models such as the Bentley Motors and the Bentley Barnato, the collection also features timepieces of the extra class such as the Bentley Mulliner Tourbillon, the rectangular chronograph Flying B or the limited Mark VI Complications 29.

The face of Breitling for Bentley is today nobody less than David Beckham - a world-famous icon with British style.