Breitling Spatiographe
Instead of a standard minute sub-dial, the Breitling Spatiographe features a window under which you can see a slowly rotating minute disc. With only 10 minutes to show, it disrupts chronograph stereotypes. If you lower your sight slightly to the right, there is another surprise waiting. While a standard chronograph with 3 sub-dials holds this place for a 12 hours counter, look what’s there on the Spatiographe. A three hour counter that’s not divided into typical 30 minutes slots, but into 10-minute intervals.
Even one of the most active Breitling community advisors and vintage aficionado @watchfred has very little information about it. I got in touch with Sylvain Bergeron, Breitling head of product design. Through a few other contacts, I reached Nicolas Chambron, Digital Project Manager & Heritage, who, like many of us, shares in the passion for vintage Breitling watches. So far it seems all people involved in the project left and we have no names so far.
What we know about the Spatiographe
Despite limited knowledge, I decided to go public with what we know and what we collected from accessible sources. It reminds me of an exciting time years ago when RJ was exploring stories behind the Omega Speedmaster. If you have any other and deeper information or you know (or you are) people involved in the project, I would be delighted to find out more. We still don’t know the real motivation, inspiration, or reasoning behind the Spatiographe idea and its release. For the time being, you have to stay with our honest assumptions.
The first and most probable link is the early 1950s digital 765 Co-Pilot, also known as the “Lucy Digital“. In the place where you would usually see a date window, “Lucy” had a 15-minutes digital counter display for the pilot’s instrument approaches. The Breitling Spatiographe on the contrary features the digital counter on the left side. And it’s considerably bigger. There is hardly a better explanation than the one that the Spatiographe commemorates one of the most important chronographs in the history of Breitling. But why is it only 10 minutes and not 15? Why are there 3 hours only? I am afraid those are questions we won’t find answers to today.
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