Caliber 79

About the Breitling Caliber 79

The Aerospace is operated entirely from the crown: turn it to cycle through the functions and press it to select, with two liquid-crystal displays showing a chronograph to a hundredth of a second, an alarm, a second time zone, a countdown timer and a perpetual calendar, while the hands keep the time. Thermocompensation corrects the quartz oscillator against temperature, which is what earns the chronometer certificate, and the 7-jewel movement is 22 mm across. Breitling's titanium case keeps the watch light enough to be the pilot's instrument it was designed as.

In this library it sits under the Aerospace and the Aerospace Evo of 2013, 28 references in the 42 mm case and 21 in the 43 mm Evo. Two are limited editions.

The Caliber 78 is the analogue-digital SuperQuartz of the Chronospace and Airwolf, and the B71 and Caliber 77 the three-hand SuperQuartz movements in the smaller cases.