Breitling Watch Saves Hunter’s Life

The transmitter in a Breitling Emergency watch recently saved the life of a stranded hunter in Alaska. On August 15, Mark Spencer was hunting grizzly bears about 120 miles northeast of Anchorage when he became stuck in the wilderness along Susitna River in the heart of the infamous Alaska Range. Unable to navigate the hazardous rapids of the Susitna River, his float-hunting party had diverted the course of their boat to the Tyone River, which proved too shallow for their vessel. Spencer left his group and went searching for help on the glaciated Susitna River and struck a shoal tearing a hole in the vessel, sinking it in the icy waters. He had spent more than 48 hours struggling for his life in the Alaskan Backcountry. The Breitling Emergency replica panerai Luminor is designed with a micro-transmitter broadcasting on the 121.5 MHz aircraft emergency frequency. The transmitter is activated by unscrewing a protective cap and extending a short antenna. The signal can be heard for about 100 miles and will broadcast for 48 hours. After Spencer activated the transmitter on the timepiece, a rescue crew was able to pinpoint his exact location and lift him to safety by helicopter after they picked up the distress signal. By contrast, his hand-held Personal Locator Beacon device was incorrectly pointing the search team to a location 4 miles away. Many divers’ wristwatches include chronographs, but few of them can be operated at great depths underwater due to the risk of water entering the case when the chronograph pushpieces are activated. Breitling has hit upon a solution to this problem in its Superocean Chronograph M2000, which, as its name implies, has a chronograph that is operable at a depth of 2,000 meters underwater. The cartier replica watches uk is the first to feature a patented magnetic push-piece system, in which the chronograph controls are operated via the metal of the case. Along with the screw-locked crown and the 4-mm-thick sapphire crystal, these pushers enable the wearer to use the watch at the extreme depth of 2,000 meters (or 6,600 feet) without the risk of water seeping in. The movement is Breitling’s Caliber 73, which has been chronometer-certified by the Swiss Official Chronometer Testing Institute (COSC). It is a self-winding, “thermocompensated SuperQuartz” movement, equipped with a 1/10-second chronograph, with 60-minute and 12-hour counters and a split-seconds hand for split times, as well as a date indication. The stainless-steel case is 46 mm in diameter and has a unidirectional, ratcheted, rotating bezel. The curved sapphire crystal is glareproofed on both surfaces. The dial is in Breitling’s “Volcano black,” with silver-rimmed subdials highlighted in red (as shown), blue, green, or black. Options for the strap or bracelet include Barenia leather, “Superocean” leather, perforated “Ocean Racer” rubber,” “Diver Pro” rubber with raised central ridge, and replica breitling bentley ’s “Professional” steel bracelet. The price for the model shown here is $4,485. (Click on watch photos to see larger images.)