BREITLING Co-Pilot ref.765 CP / Reverse Panda Pilot's Chronograph

— Form told by the dial —

A matt black dial with a steel rotating bezel.

The silver sub-dials that rise from it shine quietly, like an instrument panel.

A face where legibility and form live together — designed for those who look up at the sky.

The Co-Pilot, a monument among pilot's chronographs, born in pursuit of accuracy in the air. Ref.765 CP, the legendary reference that evolved to meet the Breguet Type XX. Silver sub-dials and a steel rotating bezel against a jet-black matt dial. Perfect instrument design, loved by legends of the period including Ken Miles. Superb burn in the original period lume, with a presence that transcends its own era.

— Those who ran through sky and ground —

Ken Miles, Jean-Claude Killy, Raquel Welch.

One who raced, one who skied, one who lit up the screen.

Between sport and art, the Co-Pilot on their wrists was not merely a tool but a companion marking the trajectory of a life.

— Competition and evolution: ref.765 AVI to CP —

In 1964 ref.765 AVI was created to compete with French aviation watches.

Its design thinking, conscious of the Breguet Type XX, was for those who pursued accuracy in the air.

The following year it became ref.765 CP.

Given the name Co-Pilot, it declared its intent to be the thing at the side of anyone who flies.

— The afterglow of the lume —

The burn remaining in the hand lume is a trace that speaks for the passage of time.

That the original luminous paint survives in this condition quietly lights the moment where past and present cross.

The word vintage has meaning precisely because of this kind of afterglow.

— Memory re-staged —

In 2020 it was revived as the ref.765 1953 Re-Edition, restaging that design thinking and aesthetic in the present.

The iconic design still carries a longing for the sky, across the decades.