Breitling Top Time is a COSC-certified chronograph introduced in 1964 by Swiss watch brand Breitling SA.

The watch appeared in the 1965 James Bond movie Thunderball: Bond is given a Breitling Top Time which contains a geiger counter to track down two stolen nuclear warheads. After the movie was filmed, the watch disappeared and later resurfaced in a car boot sale in England in 2012, where it was purchased for £25. It later sold at Christie's auction house for over £100,000.[1][2] (In the same film, the SPECTRE pilot who hijacks the Vulcan bomber wears a Breitling Navitimer).

The most recent version of the watch is produced with an in-house Breitling movement.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "James Bond watch with geiger counter sells for $160,000". Reuters. 26 June 2013. Archived from the original on 1 July 2013. Retrieved 1 July 2013.
  2. ↑ "Original Thunderball Geiger counter watch found by Bond fans". Bond Lifestyle. 16 May 2013. Retrieved 1 July 2013.
  3. ↑ Breitling's Top Time Classic Cars Collection Goes In-House And Adds A Thunderbird JAMES STACEY, Hodinkee, March 21, 2023
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