Timeline Watch
2000

Breitling B-2 Professional

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2000 Breitling B-2 Professional ref. A42362, powered by 38 jewel Breitling Caliber 42, a self-winding movement with special 3-hour and 10-minute counters.

The B-2 Professional, is an aviation chronograph in line with the noblest Breitling tradition.

Breitling has been a leading innovator in high quality stopwatches and chronographs and helped define how chronographs look and function until today.

Breitling launched the first wrist chronograph with a pusher at 2:00 in 1915, presented the first dual pusher wrist chronograph with pushers at 2:00 and 4:00 in 1933 and was one of the first manufacturers to recognize the need of early aviators for wrist watches incorporating such devices.

In 1942 Breitling introduced the Chronomat, the worlds first Smart Watch, a chronograph with a rotating logarithmic slide rule that allowed complex calculations with the turn of your fingers.

Throughout the 1930s to 50s, Breitling continued creating chronographs with different scales to suit different professions, such as tachymeters for production engineers and drivers, and pulsometers for doctors.