Breitling with aviation industry? Aviation industry meaning commercial airlines or any industry involved, even catering, cabin cleaning ? manufacturing or maintenance of aircraft? military?
No IWC, Sinn, Tutima, Lange, Cartier, Longines , etc ?
IWC, Lange, JLC (WWII), Omega (Speedy) and Rollie GMT for commercial pilots, Cartier (developed for the earliest aviator), Longines for the trans Atlantic, Sinn (formerly partly owned by a ex-Swiss fighter pilot) for Lufthansa, Tutima for military pilots.
The list goes on if you refer to any watch which advertises with aircraft in the background or has been used by famous aviators.
ORIS only recently associated itself with de commissioned military or helicopter squadrons.
B&R then in that case tries to associate itself with aviation by designing their watches to look like altimers and models dressed as pilots during product launch
Damasko with the Eurofighter
Breitling of course with the acrobatic teams and an actor who owns a plane
Latecomers like Junkers, Messerschmidt try to associate with aircraft too but by name only...
Breitlings is one of the "must have" brand if you are in the aviation industry. IMHO. To go for its other models that are not associated to its core aviation theme would be a little bit of a waste, i.e. Omega, ORIS and Rolex do come to mine, among others.
And as our other fellow TS noted, it is a bit too big and the max my wrist can take without making it look to baggy is 40mm (41mm is pushing it).
