1884: In St. Imiez, in the Jura mountains of Switzerland, Léon Breitling opens a workshop specializing in making chronographs and precision counters for scientific and industrial purposes.
1891: German Otto Lilienthal, known as the “father of aviation”, flies more than 50 meters (165 ft) in his glider.
1892: In response to his company’s significant growth, Léon BREITLING relocates in La Chaux-de-Fonds, the centre of Swiss watch making in those days.
1903: On December 17, 1903, at Kitty Hawk (North Carolina), Orville Wright achieves the first powered flight in a heavier-than-air machine: 12 seconds over a distance of 36.5 meters.
1909: On July 25, 1909, Louis Blériot, “conqueror of the Channel” successfully flies from Calais to Dover in 37 minutes, in a Blériot XI.
1913: On September 21, 1913, Adolphe Pégoud, nicknamed “king of the air”, loops the first ever loop in aviation history.
1914: On the demise of Léon Breitling, his son Gaston takes over the firm.
1915: Gaston creates the first wristwatch chronograph and subsequently provides pilots with the first wrist instruments.
1918: The spectacular progress made in aviation during World War I does much to hasten the end of the conflict. It is the end of the era of the formidable “Red Baron”, Manfred von Richthofen.
1919: On June 15, 1915, John Alcock and his co-pilot Arthur Brown land their Vickers Vimy at Clifden, Ireland. Having left Newfoundland exactly 16 hours and 12 minutes earlier, they become the first to fly over the Atlantic.
1923: Breitling develops the first independent chronograph push piece. Start and return-to-zero functions had previously been controlled using the winding-crown.
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