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Breitling SA

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Breitling SA is a Swiss luxury watchmaker based in Grenchen, Switzerland. [1]

47 relations: Aerobatics, AeroSuperBatics, Aircraft emergency frequency, Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, Aircraft pilot, Astronaut, Automatic watch, Bentley, Bernese Jura, Bertrand Piccard, Bloomberg Businessweek, Breitling Chronomat, Breitling Jet Team, Breitling Orbiter, Brian Jones (aeronaut), Car boot sale, Christie's, Chronometer watch, Civil aviation, Complication (horology), CVC Capital Partners, Emergency position-indicating radiobeacon station, Esquire (magazine), ETA SA, Flight lieutenant, Geiger counter, Grenchen, International Cospas-Sarsat Programme, James Bond, Jet pack, Léon Breitling, Luxury goods, Movement (clockwork), Nuclear weapon, Project Mercury, Saint-Imier, Scott Carpenter, Slide rule, Squadron leader, Switzerland, The Guardian, Thunderball (film), Valjoux, Watchmaker, Wired (magazine), Yves Rossy, 24-hour analog dial.

Aerobatics

Aerobatics (a portmanteau of aerial-acrobatics) is the practice of flying maneuvers involving aircraft attitudes that are not used in normal flight.

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AeroSuperBatics

AeroSuperBatics Ltd is a British aerobatics and wingwalking team.

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Aircraft emergency frequency

The aircraft emergency frequency (also known as GUARD) is a frequency used on the aircraft band reserved for emergency communications for aircraft in distress.

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Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association

The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) is a Frederick, Maryland-based American non-profit political organization that advocates for general aviation.

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Aircraft pilot

An aircraft pilot or aviator is a person who controls the flight of an aircraft by operating its directional flight controls.

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Astronaut

An astronaut or cosmonaut is a person trained by a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft.

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Automatic watch

An automatic or self-winding watch is a mechanical watch in which the mainspring is wound automatically as a result of the natural motion of the wearer to provide energy to run the watch, making manual winding unnecessary.

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Bentley

Bentley Motors Limited is a British manufacturer and marketer of luxury cars and SUVs—and a subsidiary of Volkswagen AG since 1998.

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Bernese Jura

Bernese Jura (Jura bernois) is the name for the French-speaking area of the Swiss canton of Bern, and from 2010 one of ten administrative divisions of the canton.

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Bertrand Piccard

Bertrand Piccard FRSGS (born 1 March 1958) is a Swiss psychiatrist and balloonist.

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Bloomberg Businessweek

Bloomberg Businessweek is an American weekly business magazine published by Bloomberg L.P. Businessweek was founded in 1929.

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Breitling Chronomat

The Breitling Chronomat is a watch that was released in 1941 in Switzerland by Breitling SA.

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Breitling Jet Team

Breitling jet at Air 04, Payerne, Switzerland The Breitling Jet Team is the largest civilian aerobatic display team in Europe.

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Breitling Orbiter

Breitling Orbiter was the name of three different Rozière balloons made by the company Cameron Balloons to circumnavigate the globe, named after the sponsor company Breitling.

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Brian Jones (aeronaut)

Brian Jones (born 27 March 1947 in Bristol, England) is an English balloonist.

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Car boot sale

Car boot sales or boot fairs are a form of market in which private individuals come together to sell household and garden goods.

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Christie's

Christie's is a British auction house.

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Chronometer watch

A chronometer is a specific type of mechanical timepiece tested and certified to meet certain precision standards.

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Civil aviation

Civil aviation is one of two major categories of flying, representing all non-military aviation, both private and commercial.

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Complication (horology)

In horology, a complication refers to any feature in a mechanical timepiece beyond the simple display of hours and minutes.

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CVC Capital Partners

CVC Capital Partners is a private equity firm with approximately US$80 billion in secured commitments across European and Asian private equity, credit and growth funds.

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Emergency position-indicating radiobeacon station

An emergency position-indicating radiobeacon station is a distress radiobeacon, a tracking transmitter that is triggered during an accident.

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Esquire (magazine)

Esquire is an American men's magazine, published by the Hearst Corporation in the United States.

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ETA SA

ETA SA Manufacture Horlogère Suisse (ETA SA Swiss Watch Manufacturer) designs and manufactures quartz watches and both hand-wound and automatic-winding mechanical ébauches and movements.

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Flight lieutenant

Flight Lieutenant (Flt Lt in the RAF and IAF; FLTLT in the RAAF and RNZAF—formerly sometimes F/L in all services) is a junior commissioned air force rank that originated in the Royal Naval Air Service and is still used in the Royal Air Force and many other countries, especially in the Commonwealth.

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Geiger counter

The Geiger counter is an instrument used for detecting and measuring ionizing radiation used widely in applications such as radiation dosimetry, radiological protection, experimental physics and the nuclear industry.

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Grenchen

Grenchen (Granges) is a municipality in the district of Lebern in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland.

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International Cospas-Sarsat Programme

The International Cospas-Sarsat Programme is a treaty-based, nonprofit, intergovernmental, humanitarian cooperative of 44 nations and agencies (see box on right) dedicated to detecting and locating radio beacons activated by persons, aircraft or vessels in distress, and forwarding this alert information to authorities that can take action for rescue.

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James Bond

The James Bond series focuses on a fictional British Secret Service agent created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short-story collections.

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Jet pack

A jet pack, rocket belt or rocket pack is a device, usually worn on the back, which uses jets of gas (or in some cases liquid) to propel the wearer through the air.

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Léon Breitling

Léon Breitling (1860–1914) was a Swiss watchmaker and a businessman, founder of the watch manufacturing company Breitling SA in Saint-Imier in 1884.

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Luxury goods

In economics, a luxury good (or upmarket good) is a good for which demand increases more than proportionally as income rises, and is a contrast to a "necessity good", where demand increases proportionally less than income.

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Movement (clockwork)

In horology, a movement, also known as a caliber, is the mechanism of a clock or watch, as opposed to the case, which encloses and protects the movement, and the face, which displays the time.

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Nuclear weapon

A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or from a combination of fission and fusion reactions (thermonuclear bomb).

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Project Mercury

Project Mercury was the first human spaceflight program of the United States, running from 1958 through 1963.

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Saint-Imier

Saint-Imier is a municipality in the Jura bernois administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

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Scott Carpenter

Malcolm Scott Carpenter (May 1, 1925 – October 10, 2013), (Cmdr, USN), was an American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, aeronautical engineer, astronaut, and aquanaut.

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Slide rule

The slide rule, also known colloquially in the United States as a slipstick, is a mechanical analog computer.

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Squadron leader

Squadron leader (Sqn Ldr in the RAF; SQNLDR in the RAAF and RNZAF; formerly sometimes S/L in all services) is a commissioned rank in the Royal Air Force and the air forces of many countries which have historical British influence.

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Switzerland

Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a sovereign state in Europe.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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Thunderball (film)

Thunderball is a 1965 British spy film and the fourth in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions, starring Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond.

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Valjoux

Valjoux (for Vallée de Joux, "Joux Valley") is a Swiss manufacturer of mechanical watch movements.

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Watchmaker

A watchmaker is an artisan who makes and repairs watches.

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Wired (magazine)

Wired is a monthly American magazine, published in print and online editions, that focuses on how emerging technologies affect culture, the economy, and politics.

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Yves Rossy

Yves Rossy (born 27 August 1959) is a Swiss military-trained pilot and an aviation enthusiast.

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24-hour analog dial

Clocks and watches with a 24-hour analog dial have an hour hand that makes one complete revolution, 360°, in a day (24 hours per revolution).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breitling_SA

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