Breitling Aerospace Buying Guide, Specs, and Prices | Ultimate Watch

The Breitling Aerospace is the watch that quietly does more than almost anything else on your wrist, and it does it from a single crown. Breitling launched it in 1985, first badged "Navitimer Aerospace," as its first purpose-built quartz pilot's watch. Built in titanium from day one, roughly 40mm and just over 9mm thick in its original form, it packs a hybrid analog-plus-LCD display that gives you time, a perpetual day and date, a second time zone, a countdown timer, a chronograph, an alarm, and a minute repeater. Every one of those functions is selected and set by rotating and pushing the crown in its neutral position, no pushers to memorize, no bezel calculator to master. We buy and sell these every week on 47th Street, and the Aerospace is one of the easiest recommendations we make to a first-time collector who wants a real tool watch that flies under the radar. It is light on the wrist, tough as titanium gets, and priced within reach on the pre-owned market. This is the watch a lot of pilots and engineers actually wear instead of the flashier chronographs sitting in the same drawer.