Breitling Top Time is a COSC-certified chronograph introduced in 1964 by Swiss watch brand Breitling SA.
The most recent version of the watch is produced with an in-house Breitling movement.[1]
In popular culture
- The watch appeared in the 1965 James Bond movie Thunderball: Bond is given a Breitling Top Time with a watchcase large enough containing a built-in 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 GB£25. It later sold at Christie's auction house for over GB£100,000.[2][3] (In the same film, the SPECTRE pilot who hijacks the Vulcan bomber wears a Breitling Navitimer).
References
- Breitling's Top Time Classic Cars Collection Goes In-House And Adds A Thunderbird JAMES STACEY, Hodinkee, March 21, 2023^
- James Bond watch with geiger counter sells for $160,000 Reuters, 26 June 2013, retrieved 1 July 2013^
- Original Thunderball Geiger counter watch found by Bond fans Bond Lifestyle, 16 May 2013, retrieved 1 July 2013^