Breitling Navitimer “top gun” -D30022 0058/1000
PAD NCOIC with the Fort Drum MEDDAC, here as a safety on a firing line. This Breitling Navitimer Top Gun was bought at a watch shop in Shinjuku, Japan, and it has been the daily wear across two duty stations. The wish was to be a pilot, "but can't see right, so I keep that dream on my wrist." What did you want to be before the job you have now? 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 Top Gun, D30022
Breitling built the Navitimer in the early 1950s around a circular slide rule bezel, a flight computer pilots could work on the wrist, and it became the watch of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association. In the 1990s Breitling produced a Navitimer 92 line, and the D30022 is its Top Gun edition: 1,000 numbered pieces from the mid 1990s, with the United States Navy Fighter Weapons School insignia on the dial. The D prefix marks Breitling's steel and gold versions.
Breitling's archive lists the Navitimer 92 movement as its calibre 30, an automatic built on an ETA 2892-2 base with a Dubois Depraz chronograph module.
Fighter Weapons School
The Navy Fighter Weapons School, known as TOPGUN, was established in 1969 at Naval Air Station Miramar to train fighter crews in air combat after losses over Vietnam. It moved to Naval Air Station Fallon, Nevada, in 1996.