Even within the male-dominated world of high-end watches, Breitling has a reputation, cultivated over decades, for being a timepiece for a certain type of adventure-seeking man.
The Grenchen, Switzerland-based brand designed watches specifically for pilots starting in the 1950s, nearly two decades before a major commercial airline would put a woman in the cockpit. Its parties at Baselworld, a watch and jewellery trade show, were famous for…