Breitling Navitimer 46mm

The Capability Development Division Chief at the Coast Guard’s Software Yard, where major applications for the fleet are developed and sustained. He was an Apple Watch guy until a year ago, when a shipmate sat next to him at the Senior Leadership Transition Course wearing an Omega and talking about the watch community; one conversation and six watches later, a different piece goes to work every day. The favorite is this Breitling Navitimer, the 46 millimeter chronometer whose circular slide rule has been doing flight math since 1952. And resting on the Coast Guard cover in frame is a Department of Watches challenge coin, which this office notes with entirely professional satisfaction. If you have a wrist shot from somewhere that matters, submit at the link in bio. Tempus Est Potentia.

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Breitling Navitimer 46 The Navitimer predates its own legend: introduced in 1952 with a rotating slide rule bezel that let pilots compute fuel burn, ground speed, and unit conversions in the cockpit, it was adopted by the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association and has stayed in continuous production ever since. The modern 46 millimeter version is a COSC certified chronometer running Breitling’s in house chronograph caliber, with the beaded bezel and crowded, purposeful dial that made the original famous. Nobody computes fuel burn on the bezel anymore, which has never once been the point. USCG Software Yard The submitter leads capability development at the Coast Guard’s Software Yard, the organization that builds and sustains the major applications the service runs on, a reminder that the modern fleet floats on code as much as steel. His watch story is one year old and already six watches deep, started by a shipmate’s Omega at the Senior Leadership Transition Course. The desk tells the rest: a challenge coin collection years in the making, a Coast Guard cover, a Navitimer that became the daily favorite, and a Department of Watches coin resting on the cover, exactly where it belongs.

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